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

Study also finds people from ethnic minorities with atrial fibrillation more than twice as likely to die than white patients

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 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.