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Health Disparities in Coronary Heart Disease in Miami‐Dade County among Multi‐ethnic populations
Author(s) -
Nagi Gagandeep,
Huffman Fatma G.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.630.23
Subject(s) - medicine , miami , years of potential life lost , demography , ethnic group , gerontology , population , mortality rate , coronary heart disease , environmental health , surgery , life expectancy , environmental science , sociology , anthropology , soil science
The objective of this study was to measure health disparities in Coronary heart disease (CHD) stratified by race/ethnicity in Miami‐Dade. Data were obtained from Florida Department of Health‐ Bureau of Vital Statistics (N=2,496,435) with 73.8% Whites, 65.0% Hispanics, 18.9% Blacks, 1.5% Asians. Single year rates for Years of potential life lost (YPLL) and Age‐adjusted death rates (AADR) for CHD were used. Disparities were measured in Absolute rate differences and Index of Disparity (ID). Whites were used as the reference point. High absolute rate differences obtained for YPLL in Blacks showed 219.1 more cases per 100,000 population in 2010 than Whites, Hispanics had 1.2 higher cases in 2010 in YPLL than Whites, and Asians had 10.8 lesser cases in 2010 than Whites. Disparity in AADR showed that Asians had 35.6 lesser cases in 2010, and Hispanics had 2.5 times higher cases of mortality in CHD than Whites in 2010. The ID in YPLL for all races as a group was 15.54% whereas AADR showed an ID of 8.69% in 2010. These measurements will be useful for their intended use in communicating the magnitude of disparity and allocating resources towards nutritional assessment and risk prevention for CHD.