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Years of Potential Life Lost Because of Cardiovascular Disease in Asian‐American Subgroups, 2003–2012

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Iyer, Divya G., Shah, Nilay S., Hastings, Katherine G., Hu, Jiaqi, Rodriguez, Fatima, Boothroyd, Derek B., Krishnan, Aruna V., Falasinnu, Titilola +1 more·2019·Journal of the American Heart Association

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Background: Asian‐American subgroups (Asian‐Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese) display varied cardiovascular disease mortality patterns, especially at younger ages. This study aims to examine the years of potential life lost because of ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease among the 6 largest Asian‐American subgroups compared with non‐Hispanic whites. Methods and Results: We used National Center for Health Statistics Multiple Causes of Death mortality files from 2003 to 2012 to calculate race‐specific life expectancy, mean years of potential life lost, and years of potential life lost per 100 000 population for each Asian subgroup and non‐Hispanic whites. Asian‐American subgroups display heterogeneity in cardiovascular disease burden. Asian‐Indians had a high burden of ischemic heart disease; Asian‐Indian men lost 724 years per 100 000 population in 2012 and a mean of 17 years to ischemic heart disease. Respectively, Vietnamese and Filipino men and women lost a mean of 17 and 16 years of life to cerebrovascular disease; Filipino men lost 352 years per 100 000 population in 2012. All Asian subgroups for both sexes had higher years of life lost to cerebrovascular disease compared with non‐Hispanic whites. Conclusions: Cardiovascular disease burden varies among Asian subgroups, and contributes to greater premature mortality in certain subgroups. Asian‐Indian and Filipino populations have the highest years of life lost because of ischemic heart disease and Filipino and Vietnamese have the highest years of life lost because of cerebrovascular disease. Analysis of risk factors and development of subgroup‐specific interventions are required to address these health disparities.

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  • Emerging research suggests that some Asian subgroups, and Pacific Islanders, may be at higher risk for CVD and poorer outcomes than NHW, and that there are important differences among API subgroups.

    “Emerging research suggests that some Asian subgroups, and Pacific Islanders, may be at higher risk for CVD and poorer outcomes than NHW, and that there are important differences among API subgroups [4-8].”

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    The Methods and Results report differences in CVD burden among Asian-American subgroups and higher years of life lost to cerebrovascular disease than among non-Hispanic whites. The Discussion also identifies Filipino and Vietnamese populations as having more years of life lost than the non-Hispanic white population studied. The paper does not report CVD risk or outcomes for Pacific Islanders, so it does not support that part of the sentence. (LLM, conf=0.89)

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  • Among Asian populations, study findings of higher prevalence of all three CVD conditions among Filipinos is consistent with previous reports of higher cardiometabolic risk and poorer health outcomes in this population.

    “Among Asian populations, study findings of higher prevalence of all three CVD conditions among Filipinos is consistent with previous reports of higher cardiometabolic risk and poorer health outcomes in this population [4, 7, 13, 15, 19, 22, 30-34].”

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Authors
Iyer, D. G., Shah, N. S., Hastings, K. G., Hu, J., Rodriguez, F., Boothroyd, D. B., Krishnan, A. V., Falasinnu, T., & Palaniappan, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Connecticut (US)
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford University Stanford CA
Corresponding author
Palaniappan, Latha
Venue
Journal of the American Heart Association
Published
2019-04-02
Volume
8
Issue
7
Pages
e010744-e010744
ISSN
2047-9980 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2924337196
Cited by
67
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1
FWCI
8.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Journal of the American Heart Association (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K01HL144607, K24HL150476)
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01MD007012)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Healthcare Systems and Public Health
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Keywords
years of potential life lost, cardiovascular disease burden, Asian American subgroups, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, premature mortality, Asian Indian Americans, Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans, health disparities, life expectancy
MeSH terms
Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Asian, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cause of Death, Cerebrovascular Disorders, China, Female, Humans, India, Japan, Life Expectancy, Male, Middle Aged, Philippines, Sex Factors, United States, Vietnam, Myocardial Ischemia, White People, Republic of Korea

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