Race Treatment and Cardiovascular Health: A Study of Men With Prostate Cancer

ion. The HFHS employs an electronic medical record, allowing us to obtain detailed information on the cases; paper records were requested on an as-needed basis to supplement electronically available data (only 22 (1.1%) charts were requested for this study). All tumor registry prostate diagnosis between 1/1/1998 and 12/31/2006 n = 6135 Only African American or Caucasian where class equals ‘1’ (e.g. diagnosis and treatment done at HFHS) n = 3202 AA = 1493 and C = 1709 Only African American (AA) or Caucasian (C) n = 4382 AA = 1631 and C = 2751 AA and C “match-able” by ±5 years age, ±1 year date of diagnosis n = 2766 AA = 1383 and C = 1383 Randomly selected 1000 pairs n = 2000 AA = 1000 and C = 1000 Remainder 383 pairs n = 766 AA = 383 and C = 383 This is generated by searching on all prostate cancer diagnoses in the HFHS tumor registry (which feeds into SEER); initial diagnosis of prostate cancer only (i.e. these are not re-current cases) This is from the HFHS tumor registry database, which has indicators for where disease was diagnosed and where disease was treated; we restricted to diagnosed here AND treated here. The above pool of 383 pairs is retained; if pair(s) in the original cohort have problems (e.g. no data; incorrect race, etc...) we can randomly select a new pair from this pool of patients.