Is the higher cardiovascular disease incidence rate in African American subjects compared to white subjects attributable to a higher frequency of elevated CVD risk factors?
Higher cardiovascular disease incidence in African Americans is largely driven by a higher burden of elevated risk factors, emphasizing the critical need for targeted primary prevention.
The higher CVD incidence rate in African American than in white subjects seems largely attributable to a high frequency of elevated CVD risk factors in African American subjects. Primary prevention of elevated CVD risk factors in African American subjects might greatly reduce CVD occurrence as much as it has for white subjects.
Hozawa et al. (2007) studied this question.