Myocardial infarction in the Kathmandu Valley: relation to two ethnic groups.
The incidence of 57 cases of acute cardiac infaraction in two major ethnic groups living in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, under similar cultural and socioeconomic conditions is reported. Although there was no statistically significant difference in the age distribution in the two groups, a higher incidence of cardiac infarction was found in the Indo-Aryan ethnic group.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D002052:Myanmar / Q000208:ethnology; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009390:Nepal