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Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD) is a leading cause of death in New Zealand and the burden falls disproportionately on Māori, the indigenous population of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Data for Māori:non-Māori disparities in risk factors, hospitalisation, procedure receipt and mortality for IHD are analysed. Age-adjusted rates of IHD mortality (2000–2004) and publicly funded hospitalisations and procedures (2003–2005) for Māori and non-Māori are reported and compared.

Significant inequalities between Māori and non-Māori in IHD risk factors, hospitalisations, mortality and the receipt of related procedures exist. IHD hospitalisation rates for Māori are 1.4 times that of non-Māori, however mortality rates are more than twice that of non-Māori. In recent years Māori revascularisation rates have increased (as have non-Māori rates) but are still considerably less than might be expected …