Why the study?
Are there race-ethnic and sex differences in left ventricular structure and function among young adults?
Are there race-ethnic and sex differences in left ventricular structure and function among young adults?
African American men exhibit adverse differences in LV structure and function compared to other race-sex groups that are not fully explained by traditional cardiovascular risk factors.
May inform early risk awareness in young adults; leaves open mechanisms, causality, and outcomes.
African American men have greater LV size and lower LV systolic and diastolic function compared to African American women and to white men and women. The reasons for these racial-ethnic differences are partially but not completely explained by established cardiovascular risk factors.
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Kishi et al. (2015) studied this question.
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