Posted on 03/22/2008 3:37:51 PM PDT by blam
Hispanics With Clogged Arteries At Greatest Risk Of Stroke, Heart Attack, Study Shows
ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2008) — Hispanics who have even a small amount of plaque build-up in the neck artery that supplies blood to the brain are up to four times more likely to suffer or die from a stroke or heart attack than Hispanics who do not have plaque, according to a study published in the March 19, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
For the study, researchers used ultrasound to determine the thickness of the plaque in the carotid artery of 2,189 men and women who were part of the multi-ethnic Northern Manhattan Study. Carotid plaque was found in 58 percent of the group. The maximum carotid plaque thickness was defined as those who had more than 1.9 mm of plaque thickness, which represented one quarter of the group.
After an average follow-up of seven years, 121 people suffered or died from ischemic stroke, 118 suffered or died from heart attack and 166 died of other vascular causes.
The study found Hispanics with the thickest amounts of plaque had a three-to-four-fold increased risk of vascular events, such as stroke or heart attack, compared to Hispanics who did not have plaques.
"These results are important for developing stroke and vascular prevention programs for all, but also for certain ethnic groups such as Hispanics, who represent the fastest growing minority population in the U.S.," said study author Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD, with the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami in Florida. "More research is needed though to determine why Hispanics with even small amounts of carotid plaque are particularly susceptible to vascular events."
Rundek says their findings also show plaque thickness measured by ultrasound is a simple tool that can help doctors determine the risk of vascular events and guide stroke prevention therapies, regardless of ethnicity. "It is a non-invasive marker that can help doctors identify the beginning stages of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, that is also associated with increased risk of stroke."
The study was supported by the Gilbert Baum Memorial Grant, the Goddess Fund for Stroke Research in Women, and grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Adapted from materials provided by American Academy of Neurology.
Your family history is more important than your race.
Can't we have one article on anything without liberal bias? Geez!
Would those be Black Hispanics, White Hispanics, or Mexicans?
WTF?
I'm a firm believer in that. I'm a typical old white guy with great cholesteral count and eat anything I want. So do my 87 year old parents. I plan on living forever - so far, so good.
Finally a reasonable alternative to The Wall.
Load them up with free Big Mac’s at the border.
HAH!
Chuckle. Let us know if it doesn't work out.
women and minorities hardest hit...
Lard, Mandrake. Re-fried beans, they’re full of lard.
Los fluids precioso, amigo. Mucuso—all she wrote-o.
LOL!
Unless there is a diet just for THAT race?
Me thinks that any race could have clogged arteries if they have a unhealthy diet. I don’t think it’s just Hispanics.
Can't we have one article on anything without liberal bias? Geez!”
Thank you!
The next thing you'll hear is “whitey is trying to kill us through diet.”
Typical white peoples’ fault.
What about Non Hispanics
What are those statistics
lolol
Get a load of this.
Racism may affect infant mortality rates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904306/posts
How often do you think about your race?
Would you say never, once a year, once a month, once a week, once a day, once an hour, or constantly? This question has already been included on the “Reactions to Race” module that was piloted on the 2002 BRFSS. It has also been included on two large postal surveys, the 1995 Nurses’ Health Study II (NHS II with 93,681 respondents, Walter Willett, Principal Investigator) and the 1997 Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS with 53,269 respondents, Lynn Rosenberg and Lucile Adams-Campbell, Principal Investigators).
...the distribution of frequency of thinking about one’s “race” is almost identical between the black women responding to the 1997 BWHS and the black women responding to the 1995 NHS II, even though these are entirely different groups of women who were queried two years apart. Further note that the distribution of “race”-consciousness for the white women responding to the NHS II differed markedly from the distribution for the black women in NHS II, even though both groups were nurses and they were surveyed at the same time. More than 50% of the white women in NHS II reported that they never think about their “race”, and only 0.3% reported thinking about their “race” constantly. On the other hand, 21% of the black women in NHS II and 22% of the black women responding to BWHS reported thinking about their “race” constantly, and roughly 50% of the black women in both groups reported thinking about their “race” once a day or more frequently. The distribution of frequency of thinking about one’s “race” for Asian and Hispanic respondents to NHS II was intermediate between the black and white distributions. *
thanks, bfl
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