Association of Race and Sex With Risk of Incident Acute Coronary Heart Disease Events
Open Access
- 7 November 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 308 (17), 1768-1774
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.14306
Abstract
Although mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction (MI) and coronary heart disease (CHD) have declined in the United States since the 1970s,1-4 both death certificate data and evidence from 4 US communities suggest a steeper decline in acute CHD mortality between 2000 and 2008 for whites than for blacks, widening a long-standing disparity.5,6 Furthermore, data from Kaiser Permanente suggested that hospitalizations for MI decreased between 2002 and 2007,7 but more so for whites than for blacks. Neither death certificate data nor health plan data permit examination of incident events.5,8-10Keywords
This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
- Twenty-Two–Year Trends in Incidence of Myocardial Infarction, Coronary Heart Disease Mortality, and Case Fatality in 4 US Communities, 1987–2008Circulation, 2012
- Implications of lowering threshold of plasma troponin concentration in diagnosis of myocardial infarction: cohort studyBMJ, 2012
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2012 UpdateCirculation, 2012
- Electrocardiographic and clinical predictors separating atherosclerotic sudden cardiac death from incident coronary heart diseaseHeart, 2011
- Coronary Revascularization Trends in the United States, 2001-2008JAMA, 2011
- Recent Declines in Hospitalizations for Acute Myocardial Infarction for Medicare Fee-for-Service BeneficiariesCirculation, 2010
- Prevalence of hypertension by duration and age at exposure to the stroke beltJournal of the American Society of Hypertension, 2010
- Use of Guidelines-Recommended Management and Outcomes Among Women and Men With Low-Level Troponin ElevationCirculation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2009
- Diagnostic application of the universal definition of myocardial infarction in the intensive care unitCurrent Opinion in Critical Care, 2008
- Multiple imputation in health‐are databases: An overview and some applicationsStatistics in Medicine, 1991