Serum cholesterol--risk factor for coronary disease mortality in younger and older blacks and whites. The Charleston Heart Study, 1960-1988.
Serum total cholesterol (> or = 6.7 mmol/L) measured in 1960 in the Charleston Heart Study cohort was found to be a risk for mortality from coronary heart disease during the period of 1960 to 1988 in white men (relative risk [RR] 1.5; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.1, 2.2), white women (RR 1.7; 95% CI: 1.1, 2.7), and black women (RR 1.6; 95% CI: .9, 2.9) after age, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, education level, obesity, and diabetes were considered. For black men, the relative risk was .96 (95% CI, .39, 2.39). Only among white women was the relative risk (RR 2.4; 95% CI, 1.2, 4.5) increased among those in the older ages (55 to 74) in 1960. The evidence for cholesterol as a risk factor for coronary disease mortality in black men is inconclusive and requires further study.
Keil
J E
JE
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Systems Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.
Sutherland
S E
SE
Knapp
R G
RG
Gazes
P C
PC
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000097:blood / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013022:South Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People
D002784:Cholesterol