Coronary and Aortic Atherosclerosis in the Negroes of Haiti and the United States

Article1 August 1959CORONARY AND AORTIC ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN THE NEGROES OF HAITI AND THE UNITED STATESDALE GROOM, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWARD E. MCKEE, M.D., CHARLES WEBB, M.D., FAYE W. GRANT, Ph.D., VERGNIAUD PEAN, M.D., EDITH HUDICOURT, M.D., JAMES DALLEMAND, M.S.DALE GROOM, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWARD E. MCKEE, M.D., CHARLES WEBB, M.D., FAYE W. GRANT, Ph.D., VERGNIAUD PEAN, M.D., EDITH HUDICOURT, M.D., JAMES DALLEMAND, M.S.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-51-2-270 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptLife of the Negro in Haiti as compared to that of his racial brother in the United States is characterized by privation, a meager diet, the less stressful tempo of tropical living, less sanitation and medical care, and prevalence of infectious and deficiency diseases. There, muscles—mostly human muscles—do much of the everyday work which in the United States has long since been relegated to machines and gadgets. In Haiti's less mechanized and relatively primitive environment, coronary disease is regarded as a rarity.1This study, based upon pathologic rather than clinical findings, is an evaluation of the degree of coronary and...Bibliography1. Rapport Annuel Bio-Statistique du Service de la Sante Publique, 1949, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1954. Google Scholar2. Bronte-StewartKeysBrock BAJF: Serum cholesterol, diet, and coronary heart disease—an inter-racial survey in the Cape Peninsula, Lancet 2: 1103 (Nov. 26) 1955. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. BrockBronte-Stewart JFB: Arteriosclerosis in African populations, Minnesota Med. 38: 852, 1955. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. KeysFidanzaVicenzoBergamiKeysDiLorenzo AFSGMHF: Studies on serum cholesterol and other characteristics of clinically healthy men in Naples, Arch. Int. Med. 93: 328, 1954. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. 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GrantGroom FWD: A dietary study among Southern Negroes, J. Am. Dietet. A. (in press). Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication December 9, 1958.Presented in part at the meeting of the American Heart Association, San Francisco, California, November, 1958.From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology of the Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, and the Faculté de Médecine, University of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.This research project was supported by grants from the South Carolina Heart Association and the National Heart Institute. The collaboration of Mr. Dallemand, of the Data Processing Section of the General Motors Research Staff, was accomplished as a contribution of the General Motors Corporation to this research.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dale Groom, M.D., Department of Medicine, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston 16, South Carolina. 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