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- Title
The Risk of Hospitalization for Ischemic Heart Disease among Asian Americans in North Carolina.
- Authors
Klatsky, Arthur L.; Tekawa, Irene; Armstrong, Mary Anne; Sidney, Stephen
- Abstract
To supplement sparse data about ischemic heart disease in Asian Americans, hospitalization risk was prospectively examined in a group of Asian Americans living in Northern California. Analysis used Cox models with ischemic heart disease risk traits as covariables. With Whites as the ethnic group were as follows Chinese, 0.6 (P=.001P); Japanese, 1.0 (P=.97); Filipinos, 1.0 (P=.95); South Asians, 3.7 (P< .001); other Asian Americans, 0.8 (P=.55). Thus unexplained differences in ischemic heart disease risk exist among AsianAmerican ethnic groups, with Chinese Americans at lowest risk and persons of South Asian origin at highest risk.
- Subjects
NORTHERN California; HOSPITAL care; CORONARY disease; ASIAN Americans; HEART diseases
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1994, Vol 84, Issue 10, p1672
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.84.10.1672