Temporal Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence Among Asian American Subgroups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Asian and multiracial individuals represent the 2 fastest growing racial and ethnic groups in the United States, yet most prior studies report Asian American and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander as a single racial group, with limited data on cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevalence among subgroups. We sought to evaluate temporal trends in CVD burden among disaggregated Asian subgroups.

Methods and results

Patients with CVD based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision and Tenth Revision (ICD-9 and ICD-10) coding who received care from a mixed-payer health care organization in California between 2008 and 2018 were classified into self-identified racial and ethnic subgroups (non-Hispanic White [NHW], Asian Indi

SUBMITTER: Nguyen KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11262500 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature