Minority ethnic heart failure patients ‘36% more likely to die’ in UK

The study also showed that beta blockers were able to reduce deaths in white heart failure patients by 30% but the results for minority ethnic patients were inconclusive. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Minority ethnic patients with heart failure are more than a third more likely to die than their white counterparts, according to research.

The study, by researchers Sebastian Fox and Dr Asgher Champsi at the University of Birmingham and supported by the British Heart Foundation, looked at data from more than 16,700 people from 12 existing clinical trials for heart failure patients.