Incidence and predictors of coronary heart disease among older African Americans - The cardiovascular health study

摘要: Although coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death and morbidity in older African Americans, relatively little known about incidence predictors CHD this population. This study was undertaken to determine African-American men women aged 65 years older. The participants included a total 924 age who participated Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). overall 26.6 per 1,000 person-years risk. Rates were higher than (35.3 vs. 21.6) those 75 or less (31.3 24.5). In multivariate analysis, factors associated with risk incident male gender [relative (RR) = 1.8, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.1, 2.7], diabetes mellitus (RR 1.9, CI 1.2, 2.9), cholesterol for 40 mg/dL increment 1.3, 1.0, 1.5), low (i.e., <0.9) ankle-arm index 2.1, 3.4) after adjusting age. Within cohort gender, mellitus, cholesterol, independently predictive events. These results suggest that index, measure advanced atherosclerosis, should be further evaluated its efficacy identifying Americans at clinical