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Cardiovascular Health Among Non‐Hispanic Asian Americans: NHANES, 2011–2016
- Source :
- Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2019.
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Abstract
- Background Asian Americans are the fastest growing population in the United States, but little is known about their cardiovascular health (CVH). The objective of this study was to assess CVH among non‐Hispanic Asian Americans (NHAAs) and to compare these estimates to those of non‐Hispanic white (NHW) participants. Methods and Results Merging NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) data from 2011 to 2016, we examined 7 metrics (smoking, weight, physical activity, diet, blood cholesterol, blood glucose, and blood pressure) to assess CVH among 5278 NHW and 1486 NHAA participants aged ≥20 years. We assessed (1) the percentage meeting 6 to 7 metrics (ideal CVH), (2) the percentage meeting only 0 to 2 metrics (poor CVH), and (3) the overall mean CVH score. We compared these estimates between NHAAs and NHWs and among foreign‐born NHAAs by birthplace and number of years living in the United States. The adjusted prevalence of ideal CVH was 8.7% among NHAAs and 5.9% among NHWs ( P P =0.216) between NHAAs and NHWs. Conclusions NHAAs had a higher prevalence of overall ideal CVH compared with NHWs. However, when using a lower body mass index threshold for NHAAs, there was no difference in ideal CVH between the groups.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Blood Glucose
Male
Epidemiology
Health Status
Cardiovascular health
Population
Blood Pressure
race and ethnicity
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
White People
Body Mass Index
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Asian americans
Environmental health
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
education
Exercise
Original Research
Aged
education.field_of_study
non‐Hispanic Asian American
Asian
business.industry
Smoking
cardiovascular health
Middle Aged
Lifestyle
Nutrition Surveys
United States
Diet
Cholesterol
surveillance
Female
Diet, Healthy
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20479980
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Heart Association
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f3d1555a0b1e86ea4d714d2d02821db3