Lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease have not been reported across the age spectrum in black adults and white adults.

Methods

We conducted a meta-analysis at the individual level using data from 18 cohort studies involving a total of 257,384 black men and women and white men and women whose risk factors for cardiovascular disease were measured at the ages of 45, 55, 65, and 75 years. Blood pressure, cholesterol level, smoking status, and diabetes status were used to stratify participants according to risk factors into five mutually exclusive categories. The remaining lifetime risks of cardiovascular events were estimated for participants in each category at each age, with death free of cardiovascular disease treated as a competing event.

Results

We

SUBMITTER: Berry JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3336876 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature