Infarction; University of North Carolina, Department of Epidemiology

Average annual indirect age-standardized MI rates were calculated using community-specific and reduced tiffany earrings-wide nINC tertiles. Poisson generalized linear mixed models were used to calculate MI incidence rate ratios by tertile of census tract nINC (high nINC group referent). Within community, and among all race-gender groups, those living in low nINC neighborhoods had an increased risk of MI compared to those living in high nINC neighborhoods. This association was present when both community-specific and community-wide nINC cut points were used. Blacks and, to a lesser extent, women, were disproportionately represented in low nINC neighborhoods, resulting in a higher absolute burden of MI in blacks and women living in low compared with high nINC neighborhoods," wrote K.M. Rose and colleagues, University of North Carolina, Department of Epidemiology.

The researchers concluded: "These reduced tiffany pendants suggest a need for the joint consideration of racial, gender, and social disparities in interventions aimed at preventing coronary heart disease."

Rose and colleagues published their study in Annals of Epidemiology (Neighborhood disparities in incident hospitalized myocardial infarction in four U.S. communities: the ARIC surveillance study. Annals of Epidemiology, 2009;19(12):867-74).

For more information, contact K.M. Rose, University of North Carolina, Dept. of Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC USA.

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