Stroke incidence and survival in American Indians, blacks, and whites: The Strong Heart Study and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Send these researchers back to the drawing board because there is no such thing as race as far as the body is concerned. Go back and find a separate reason for distinguishing them.

 

Stroke incidence and survival in American Indians, blacks, and whites: The Strong Heart Study and Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Journal of the American Heart Association — Muller CJ, et al. | June 17, 2019

By pooling data from two cardiovascular disease cohort studies, researchers examined American Indians (AIs; n=3,182,) aged 45 to 74 years at baseline (1988–1990) from the SHS (Strong Heart Study) and blacks (n=3,765) and whites (n=10,413) from the ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) Study, aged 45 to 64 years at baseline (1987–1989) to compare stroke incidence and mortality in these populations. For AIs, blacks, and whites, the incident strokes reported were 282, 416, and 613, respectively. AIs had a lower incidence of stroke when compared to blacks, and a higher incidence when compared to whites; differences were larger for blacks and smaller for whites following covariate adjustment. AIs had higher poststroke mortality vs blacks and whites.