Racial and Ethnic Differences in All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: The MESA Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite improvements in population health, marked racial and ethnic disparities in longevity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality persist. This study aimed to describe risks for all-cause and CVD mortality by race and ethnicity, before and after accounting for socioeconomic status (SES) and other factors, in the MESA study (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).

Methods

MESA recruited 6814 US adults, 45 to 84 years of age, free of clinical CVD at baseline, including Black, White, Hispanic, and Chinese individuals (2000-2002). Using Cox proportional hazards modeling with time-updated covariates, we evaluated the association of self-reported race and ethnicity with all-cause and adjudicated CVD mortality, with progressive adjustments for age and sex, SES (nei

SUBMITTER: Post WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9937428 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature