U.S. News & World Report: Asian-Americans Less Likely to Survive Cardiac Arrest Despite Equal CPR Efforts

Asian adults in the United States who suffer cardiac arrest are less likely to survive than white adults, despite similar rates of receiving bystander CPR, a new study finds.

"Receiving bystander CPR is usually a very strong predictor of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, therefore, it is not entirely clear what may be driving the lower survival rate among Asian adults," said Dr. Paul Chan, the study's senior author and cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute.

Read the full U.S. News & World Report article: Asian-Americans Less Likely to Survive Cardiac Arrest Despite Equal CPR Efforts