Disparities in cardiovascular disease in black and white Americans: Clinical and non-clinical approaches to risk mitigation in a multi-cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While the greater burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in black Americans relative to white has persisted for four decades, mitigation of this disparity via clinical and non-clinical intervention is largely untested. We examined the relative impacts of targeting conventional risk factors (e.g., diabetes) and the social determinants of health (e.g., education).

Methods

In this multicohort study, we used baseline ethnicity and risk factor data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 10 cohorts initiated 1999-2018) with study member linkage to national registries for cause-specific mortality. Low risk was denoted by individual risk factors and their combination. Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to summarise the assoc

SUBMITTER: Mousavi SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12637775 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature