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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 148, No. 12: 1187-1194
Copyright © 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Body Mass Index, Waist/Hip Ratio, and Coronary Heart Disease Incidence in African Americans and Whites
1Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
2Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC
Reprint requests to Dr. Aaron R. Folsom, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Suite 300, 1300 South Second Street, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015.
To study the relation of the amount and distribution of body fat with incident coronary heart disease in two ethnic groups, the authors analyzed prospective data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Among 14, 040 participants aged 45–64 years and free of coronary disease at baseline in 1987–1989, We identified 398 events through 1994, an average of 6.2 years of follow-up. Among African-American women, the multivariable-adjusted relative risks of coronary heart disease across quartiles of body mass index were 1.0, 1.91. 1.54, and 2.15 (p for trend = 0.27), and those for waist/hip ratio were 1.0, 2.07, 2.33, and 4.22 (p for trend = 0.02). Among African-American men, these respective relative risks were 1.0, 1.03, 0.83, and 1.20 (p for trend = 0.76) for body mass index and 1.0, 1.08, 1.87, and 1.68 (p for trend = 0.06) for waist/hip ratio. Relative risks for whites were generally similar to those for African Americans. Relative risks were stronger for never smokers than for the overall cohort. Unlike some previous studies, our results suggest that Africa Americans, like whites, are not spared from the coronary heart disease risks accompanying obesity. Am J Epidemiol 1998; 148:1187–94
blacks; coronary disease; ethnic groups; obesity; weight
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