Supplementary data: Racial and ethnic differences in diagnosis, healthcare utilization and 1-year outcomes for patients with significant tricuspid regurgitation

These are peer-reviewed supplementary materials for the article 'Racial and ethnic differences in diagnosis, healthcare utilization and 1-year outcomes for patients with significant tricuspid regurgitation' published in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research.Supplemental Table 1: Patient identification criteria for significant tricuspid regurgitation, by race/ethnicitySupplemental Table 2: Comorbidity burden over time.Supplemental Table 3: Unadjusted hazard ratios for one-year post-significant tricuspid regurgitation events, by race and ethnicity.Supplemental Table 4: Hazard ratios for all explanatory variables for all-cause mortality.Supplemental Table 5: Hazard ratios for all explanatory variables for heart failure hospitalization.Background: The impact of race and ethnicity on prognosis and clinical outcomes in patients with significant tricuspid regurgitation (sTR) is not well understood. Aim: Describe healthcare utilization trends preceding the development of sTR and assess clinical outcomes 1-year post-sTR status by race and ethnicity. Materials & methods: We conducted a retrospective, longitudinal descriptive study using data from a large database containing electronic health record and insurance claims information.We employed multivariate modeling to assess the relationship between 1-year clinical outcomes and mutually exclusive race/ethnicity groups and other baseline factors. Results: Black patients were more likely to be identified as having sTR as inpatients when compared with White patients (p Conclusion: Black and Hispanic patients are less likely to have received outpatient care by a cardiac specialist prior to the development of sTR, and have higher rates of heart failure hospitalization after diagnosis. In contrast, their mortality rates following sTR identification are lower than White patients. Further investigation into the underlying mechanisms of these observations is needed to improve TR related outcomes.