CPR less likely for minorities on street or home

CHICAGO -- People who collapse from cardiac arrest in poor black neighborhoods are half as likely to get CPR from family members at home or bystanders on the street as those in better-off white neighborhoods, according to a study that found the reasons go beyond race.

The University of Colorado study looked at data on 14,000 people in 29 U.S. cities. Researchers looked at the makeup of neighborhoods and the race of the victims.

They found blacks and Hispanics were 30 percent less likely to be aided than white people.