1887
Volume 2015, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2305-7823
  • EISSN:

Abstract

The decrease in cardiovascular death rates in the United States has been slower in blacks than whites, especially in patients < 65 years of age. The Dallas Heart Study was designed as a single-site, multiethnic, population-based probability sample to produce unbiased comparison of cardiovascular health among multiple ethnicities.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.5339/gcsp.2015.1
2015-02-01
2024-03-29
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/gcsp/2015/1/gcsp.2015.1.html?itemId=/content/journals/10.5339/gcsp.2015.1&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Victor RG, Haley RW, Willett DL, Peshock RM, Vaeth PC, Leonard D, Basit M, Cooper RS, Iannacchione VG, Visscher WA, Staab JM, Hobbs HH, Dallas Heart Study Investigators . The Dallas Heart Study: A population-based probability sample for the multidisciplinary study of ethnic differences in cardiovascular health. Am J Cardiol. 2004 Jun 15; 93:12:14731480.
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Paixao AR, Ayers CR, Rohatgi A, Das SR, de Lemos JA, Khera A, Lloyd-Jones D, Berry JD. Cardiovascular lifetime risk predicts incidence of coronary calcification in individuals with low short-term risk: The Dallas Heart Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Nov 25; 3:6.
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Lakoski SG, Kozlitina J. Ethnic differences in physical activity and metabolic risk: The Dallas Heart Study. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2014 Jun; 46:6:11241132.
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Chen LQ, Rohatgi A, Ayers CR, Das SR, Khera A, Berry JD, McGuire DK, de Lemos JA. Race-specific associations of myeloperoxidase with atherosclerosis in a population-based sample: The Dallas Heart Study. Atherosclerosis 2011 Dec; 219:2:833838.
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Markham DW, Dries DL, King LP, Leonard D, Yancy CW, Peshock RM, Willett D, Cooper RS, Drazner MH. Blacks and whites have a similar prevalence of reduced left ventricular ejection fraction in the general population: The Dallas Heart Study (DHS). Am Heart J. 2008 May; 155:5:876882.
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Ahmed E, Gehani A, El-Menyar A, AlBinAli HA, Singh R, Al Suwaidi J. Acute coronary syndrome and ethnicity: Observations from the Middle East. Future Cardiol. 2014 May; 10:3:337348.
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Al Suwaidi J, Asaad N, Al-Qahtani A, Al-Mulla AW, Singh R, Albinali HA. Prevalence and outcome of Middle-eastern Arab and South Asian patients hospitalized with heart failure: Insight from a 20-year registry in a Middle-eastern country (1991–2010). Acute Card Care. 2012 Jun; 14:2:8189.
    [Google Scholar]
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.5339/gcsp.2015.1
Loading
  • Article Type: Research Article
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error