Ethnicity Modifies Associations between Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Disease Severity in Parallel Dutch and Singapore Coronary Cohorts

In 2020 the largest number of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) will be found in Asia. Published epidemiological and clinical reports are overwhelmingly derived from western (White) cohorts and data from Asia are scant. We compared CAD severity and all-cause mortality among 4 of the world&...

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Published in:	PloS one 2015-07, Vol.10 (7), p.e0132278-e0132278
Main Authors:	Gijsberts, Crystel M, Seneviratna, Aruni, de Carvalho, Leonardo P, den Ruijter, Hester M, Vidanapthirana, Puwalani, Sorokin, Vitaly, Stella, Pieter, Agostoni, Pierfrancesco, Asselbergs, Folkert W, Richards, A Mark, Low, Adrian F, Lee, Chi-Hang, Tan, Huay Cheem, Hoefer, Imo E, Pasterkamp, Gerard, de Kleijn, Dominique P V, Chan, Mark Y
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Aged Angiography Asian Continental Ancestry Group Asians Cardiac patients Cardiology Cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular diseases Comparative analysis Coronary Angiography Coronary artery Coronary artery disease Coronary Artery Disease - diagnostic imaging Coronary Artery Disease - ethnology Coronary Artery Disease - mortality Coronary heart disease Coronary vessels Cultural differences Diabetes Diabetes mellitus Epidemiology Ethnic factors Ethnicity European Continental Ancestry Group Family medical history Female Health aspects Health risks Heart attacks Heart diseases Hospitals Humans Laboratories Male Medical ethics Medical imaging Medical prognosis Medicine Middle Aged Minority & ethnic groups Mortality Netherlands - epidemiology Netherlands - ethnology Patients Population Prospective Studies Regression analysis Risk analysis Risk factors Severity of Illness Index Singapore - epidemiology Singapore - ethnology Studies Surgery
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