Race/ethnic differences in the associations of the Framingham risk factors with carotid IMT and cardiovascular events

• Main Authors: Gijsberts C.M., Groenewegen K.A., Hoefer I.E., Eijkemans M.J.C., Asselbergs F.W., Anderson T.J., Britton A.R., Dekker J.M., Engström G., Evans G.W., De Graaf J., Grobbee D.E., Hedblad B., Holewijn S., Ikeda A., Kitagawa K., Kitamura A., De Kleijn D.P.V., Lonn E.M., Lorenz M.W., Mathiesen E.B., Nijpels G., Okazaki S., O'Leary D.H., Pasterkamp G., Peters S.A.E., Polak J.F., Price J.F., Robertson C., Rembold C.M., Rosvall M., Rundek T., Salonen J.T., Sitzer M., Stehouwer C.D.A., Bots M.L., Den Ruijter H.M.
• Other Authors: SURGERY
• Format: Article
• Published: Public Library of Science 2020
• Subjects: cholesterol; high density lipoprotein cholesterol; low density lipoprotein cholesterol; arterial wall thickness; Article; Asian; atherosclerosis; Black person; cardiovascular disease; Caucasian; cerebrovascular accident; ethnic difference; Framingham risk score; heart infarction; Hispanic; human; race difference; smoking; systolic blood pressure; adult; age distribution; aged; ancestry group; blood; carotid artery disease; comorbidity; comparative study; diabetes mellitus; dyslipidemia; ethnic group; ethnology; female; follow up; health; hypertension; incidence; male; meta analysis; middle aged; pathology; prevalence; proportional hazards model; risk factor; statistical model; Adult; Age Distribution; Aged; Carotid Artery Diseases; Carotid Intima-Media Thickness; Cholesterol, HDL; Cholesterol, LDL; Comorbidity; Continental Population Groups; Diabetes Mellitus; Dyslipidemias; Ethnic Groups; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Global Health; Humans; Hypertension; Incidence; Linear Models; Male; Middle Aged; Myocardial Infarction; Prevalence; Proportional Hazards Models; Risk Factors; Smoking; Stroke
• Online Access: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/165691
• Institution: National University of Singapore

10.1371/journal.pone.0132321