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MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN THE KATHMANDU VALLEY: RELATION TO TWO ETHNIC GROUPS
Author(s) -
Shrestha Igendra P.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1978.tb141975.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , incidence (geometry) , socioeconomic status , myocardial infarction , medicine , demography , infarction , significant difference , environmental health , population , physics , sociology , anthropology , optics
The incidence of 57 cases of acute cardiac infarction in the two major ethnic groups living in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, under similar cultural and socioeconomic conditions is reported. Although there was no statistically significant difference in the age distribution in the two groups, a higher incidence of cardiac infarction was found in the Indo‐Aryan ethnic group.