Racial and ethnic differences in incident hospitalized heart failure in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The differences in the incidence of heart failure by race/ethnicity and the potential mechanisms for these differences are largely unexplored in women.

Methods and results

A total of 156 143 postmenopausal women free of self-reported heart failure enrolled from 1993 to 1998 at 40 clinical centers throughout the United States as part of the Women's Health Initiative and were followed up until 2005, for an average of 7.8 years, for incident hospitalized heart failure. Incident rates, hazard ratios (HRs), and 95% confidence intervals were determined by use of the Cox proportional hazard model comparing racial/ethnic groups, and population-attributable risk percentages were calculated for each racial/ethnic group. Blacks had the highest age-adjusted incidence of heart

SUBMITTER: Eaton CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618499 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature