Eligibility for cardiovascular risk screening among different ethnic groups: The HELIUS study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ethnic differences in the age-of-onset of cardiovascular risk factors may necessitate ethnic-specific age thresholds to initiate cardiovascular risk screening. Recent European recommendations to modify cardiovascular risk estimates among certain ethnic groups may further increase this necessity.

Aims

To determine ethnic differences in the age to initiate cardiovascular risk screening, with and without implementation of ethnic-specific modification of estimated cardiovascular risk.

Methods

We included 18,031 participants of Dutch, South-Asian Surinamese, African Surinamese, Ghanaian, Turkish and Moroccan background from the HELIUS study (Amsterdam). Eligibility for cardiovascular risk screening was defined as being eligible for blood pressure-lowering treatm

SUBMITTER: Perini W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7357181 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature