OUTCOMES IN HOSPITALIZED OLDER AFRICAN AMERICAN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION (HFPEF)

Racial differences in heart failure (HF) outcomes have been reported. However, less is known about outcomes of older African American patients with HFpEF. Of 8873 hospitalized patients with HFpEF (EF≥50%) in Medicare-linked OPTIMIZE-HF, 1040 were African American and 7158 were non-Hispanic white