Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in US Adults by Race and Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status, 1999-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

After decades of decline, the US cardiovascular disease mortality rate flattened after 2010, and racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease mortality persisted.

Objective

To examine 20-year trends in cardiovascular risk factors in the US population by race and ethnicity and by socioeconomic status.

Design, setting, and participants

A total of 50 571 participants aged 20 years or older from the 1999-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, a series of cross-sectional surveys in nationally representative samples of the US population, were included.

Exposures

Calendar year, race and ethnicity, education, and family income.

Main outcomes and measures

Age- and sex-adjusted means or proportions of cardiovascular risk fact

SUBMITTER: He J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8493438 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature