Research advances in the prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of cardiovascular
disease have contributed to the remarkable declines in cardiovascular mortality rates …

Cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the USA, poses a unique and
multilateral burden to racial/ethnic minorities. The admixture of comorbid conditions …

Increasingly, the field of health policy has come to acknowledge that patients from certain
racial and ethnic groups are more likely to receive a lower quality of health care than …

Cardiovascular epidemiology plays a fundamental role in the assessment of disease burden
and evaluation of health disparities. Although current epidemiologic data have important …

The consideration of race/ethnicity differences in the prevalence, management, and
outcome of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is essential in evaluating …

This is a comprehensive narrative review of the literature on the current science and
evidence of population-level differences in risk factors for heart disease among different …

KEY POINTS■ Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors such as
hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and obesity disproportionately affect certain …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates have declined steadily over the past few
decades but gender, socioeconomic and ethnic/racial disparities have not. These disparities …

Cardiovascular diseases account for a significant portion of deaths and healthcare costs in
the United States. Women from ethnic minorities and rural areas carry a disproportionately …

African-Americans have the highest rate of coronary disease mortality, premature death
(including sudden death), stroke (fatal and non-fatal), hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and …