DESPITE THE GREATER OBESITY AND PREVALENCE of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) in Mexican Americans (MA) than in non-Hispanic whites (NHW), MA have a similar or slightly lower prevalence and incidence of hypertension than NHW. After adjustment for age, gender, obesity, and NIDDM, the prevalence of hypertension was significantly lower in MA than in NHW in both men and women. Mexican Americans, however, have lower rates of control than do non-Hispanic whites. The high rates of NIDDM, coupled with the poor control of hypertension in Mexican Americans, make efforts to control hypertension essential in this group. The prevalence of hypertension in low income residents of Mexico City is lower than in low income Mexican Americans from San Antonio, Texas.
THE AUTHORS OF THIS PAPER SUMMARIZED the major themes that emerged from a 2-day workshop entitled Epidemiology of Hypertension in Hispanic Americans, ...
01/01/1996 | Public Health Rep. 111(Suppl 2):71-73
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THE WORKSHOP ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HYPERTENSION in Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and Asian/Pacific Islander Americans concluded with a panel ...
01/01/1996 | Public Health Rep. 111(Suppl 2):68-70
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THE AUTHORS PRESENT DATA FROM 361, 662 MEN ages 35 to 57, screened from 1973 to 1976 for possible participation in the Multiple Risk Factor Interventi...
Papers from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop on Hypertension in Selected U.S. Minority Populations.Workshop entitled "Epidemiolo...
01/01/1996 | Public Health Rep. 111(Suppl 2):37-39
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THE HEART DISEASE MORTALITY RATES of the Chippewa and Menominee, who reside in the upper Midwest, are higher than the rates of most other tribes in th...
06/18/1905 | Public Health Rep. 111(Suppl 2):15-17
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THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION in the U.S. has generally elevated frequencies of several chronic conditions, including non-insulin-dependent diabetes...
06/18/1905 | Public Health Rep. 111(Suppl 2):18-21
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WE EXAMINED THE ASSOCIATION between sociocultural status (assimilation, modernization, and socioeconomic status) and blood pressure among people of Me...
AMONG SEATTLE'S JAPANESE AMERICANS, hypertension is associated with older age, male gender (in the younger age groups), glucose intolerance (impaired ...
RESEARCHERS RECORDED BLOOD PRESSURE LEVELS of children and adolescents in the Bogalusa Heart Study (black and white populations) and in the Brooks Cou...
RESEARCHERS COMPARED AVERAGE BLOOD PRESSURE, prevalence of elevated blood pressure, and average anthropometric measurements of Asian children with tho...
POPULATION-BASED DATA ON HYPERTENSION IN HAWAII are limited. Two groups for which data from the 1980s exist are Japanese-American men ages 60 to 81 in...
01/01/1996 | Public Health Rep. 111(Suppl 2):62-64
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MANY ASIANS HAVE RECENTLY IMMIGRATED to the U.S., but there have been few studies of cardiovascular risk factors in these groups. Researchers analyzed...
Using National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) protocols, researchers measured blood pressure in 4549 American Indians ages 45 to 74 from 13 ...
HYPERTENSION AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE are increasing among minorities. Participants at the workshop on the Epidemiology of Hypertension in Hispanic ...
THE AUTHORS STUDIED THE PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS of hypertension in samples of 2053 Japanese ages 40 to 70 in Hiroshima, Hawaii, and Los Angeles. T...
THE PIMA INDIANS HAVE THE WORLD'S HIGHEST reported incidence of diabetes. Since 1965, this population has participated in a longitudinal epidemiologic...
WE ASSESSED THE PREVALENCE of obesity, high normal blood pressure (BP), and the relationship between BP and anthropometric measurements in a sample of...
THE ESTIMATED TWO MILLION American Indians and Alaska Natives, while sharing certain genetic traits, belong to groups with distinct social, cultural, ...
06/18/1905 | Public Health Rep. 111(Suppl 2):15-17
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THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN POPULATION in the U.S. has generally elevated frequencies of several chronic conditions, including non-insulin-dependent diabetes...
Purpose:To identify life-long body mass index (BMI) trajectories across two related generations and estimate their associated mortality risks and popu...
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