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The Heart Foundation has given an Auckland University researcher a fellowship to look at why Maori, Pasifika and people living in areas of high deprivation are more likely to die from a major heart event.
Dr Corina Grey, from the Epidemiology and Biostatistics section, says there is plenty of evidence those groups are more likely to die from a heart attack before reaching hospital, or in the first year after a heart attack.
But it's not known whether it's because of the time it takes to get to hospital, who gets stenting or heart surgery, who gets referred for cardiac rehabilitation, or other causes.
She will use the ANZACS-QI research programme, which gives detailed information about all patients admitted to hospitals with a heart attack or unstable angina, to look for more detail on where and why these inequalities arise.
Dr Grey's $90,000 fellowship is part of $1.7 million in new research and training grants announced by the Heart Foundation today, which is also World Heart Day.
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