PREVALENCE OF CORONARY RISK-FACTORS IN ELDERLY BLACKS AND WHITES

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作者
ARONOW, WS [1 ]
KRONZON, I [1 ]
机构
[1] NYU,SCH MED,DEPT MED,NEW YORK,NY 10003
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10.1111/j.1532-5415.1991.tb03594.x
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R592 [老年病学]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 100203 ;
摘要
Coronary risk factors were determined in a prospective study of 1,414 elderly persons (999 women and 415 men), mean age 82 +/- 8 years. Of 1,414 persons, 215 (15%) were black and 1,140 (81%) were white. The prevalences of cigarette smoking, hypercholesterolemia, low serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and increased serum total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio were not significantly different in elderly blacks and whites. Elderly blacks had a higher prevalence of hypertension (50% versus 36%, P < 0.001), diabetes mellitus (27% versus 19%, P < 0.01), and obesity (11% versus 5%, P < 0.005) and a lower prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia (9% versus 15%, P < 0.05) than elderly whites. In elderly persons with hypertension, electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy occurred in 19% of blacks and 14% of whites (P not significant), echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy occurred in 72% of blacks and 56% of whites (P < 0.01), and concentric left ventricular hypertrophy occurred in 60% of blacks and 39% of whites (P < 0.001).
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