Hispanic Ethnicity and Social Determinants of Health: Harnessing Data from The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a chronic, progressive, and debilitating disease associated with increased cardiopulmonary morbidity mortality. Current knowledge derived from registries landmark clinical trials, although concern exists that minorities are underrepresented in these datasets, it remains unknown if there intrinsic differences disadvantaged groups. The Hypertension Association Registry offers unique opportunity for the understanding of social background United States because routinely collects information related to socioeconomic factors such as annual income health care insurance. Furthermore, representation Hispanic patients may be slightly higher than other US-based registries. In this review, we discuss interplay between biologic, socioeconomic, racial or ethnic PAH, special emphasis on population. We describe profile individuals propose next steps improve fight inequality PAH.