Race-Ethnic Disparities in the Impact of Stroke Risk Factors | Zendy

Ralph L. Sacco | Zendy; Bernadette BodenAlbala | Zendy; Gregory A. Abel | Zendy; IFeng Lin | Zendy; Mitchell S.V. Elkind | Zendy; W. Allen Hauser | Zendy; Myunghee Cho Paik | Zendy; Steven Shea | Zendy

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Race-Ethnic Disparities in the Impact of Stroke Risk Factors

Author(s) -

Ralph L. Sacco,

Bernadette BodenAlbala,

Gregory A. Abel,

IFeng Lin,

Mitchell S.V. Elkind,

W. Allen Hauser,

Myunghee Cho Paik,

Steven Shea

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/01.str.32.8.1725

Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , demography , epidemiology , ethnic group , population , incidence (geometry) , risk factor , logistic regression , diabetes mellitus , gerontology , environmental health , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , sociology , anthropology , engineering , endocrinology

Stroke risk factors have been determined in large part through epidemiological studies in white cohorts; as a result, race-ethnic disparities in stroke incidence and mortality rates remained unexplained. The aim in the present study was to compare the prevalence, OR, and etiological fraction (EF) of stroke risk factors among white, blacks, and Caribbean Hispanics living in the same urban community of northern Manhattan.

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