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Racial and ethnic disparities in congenital heart disease have been documented. To understand the socioeconomic factors that might mediate the relationship between race/ethnicity and poor outcomes, investigators used California state data from 2007 to 2012 to identify 1796 live-born infants without chromosomal abnormalities and with either of two congenital heart disease lesions, hypoplastic left heart syndrome and dextro-transposition of the great arteries.
The investigators focused on outcomes in the 477 non-Hispanic white infants and the 838 Hispanic infants. Worse outcomes on the primary combined measure, 1-year infant mortality and unanticipated hospital readmissions, were associated with Hispanic ethnicity compared with white ethnicity…