title: Relation of plasma lipids to all-cause mortality in Caucasian, African-American and Hispanic elders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to investigate the relation of plasma lipids to all-cause mortality in a multi-ethnic cohort of non-demented elderly.
  
  
  METHODS
  community-based sample of Medicare recipients, 65 years and older, residing in Northern Manhattan.
  
  
  METHODS
  about two thousand five hundred and fifty-six non-demented elderly, 65-103 years. Among participants, 66.1% were women, 27.6% were White/non-Hispanic, 31.2% were African-American and 41.2% were Hispanic.
  
  
  METHODS
  a standardised assessment, including functional ability, medical history, physical and neurological examination and a neuropsychological battery was conducted. Vital status was ascertained through the National Death Index (NDI). We used survival analyses stratified by race and ethnicity to examine the relation of plasma lipids to subsequent all-cause mortality.
  
  
  RESULTS
  hispanics had the best overall survival, followed by African-Americans and Whites. Whites and African-Americans in the lowest quartiles of total cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL cholesterol) were approximately twice as likely to die as those in the highest quartile (White HR: 2.2, for lowest total cholesterol quartile; HR: 2.3, for lowest non-HDL cholesterol quartile; and HR: 1.8, for lowest LDL cholesterol quartile. African-American HR: 1.9, for lowest total cholesterol, HR: 2.0, for lowest non-HDL cholesterol and HR: 1.9, for lowest LDL cholesterol). In contrast, plasma lipid levels were not related to mortality risk among Hispanics.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  hispanic ethnicity modifies the associations between lipid levels and all-cause mortality in the elderly.
authors: Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, USA.
authors: Jennifer L
authors: JL
authors: Akerblom
authors: Rosann
authors: R
authors: Costa
authors: Jose A
authors: JA
authors: Luchsinger
authors: Jennifer J
authors: JJ
authors: Manly
authors: Ming-Xin
authors: MX
authors: Tang
authors: Joseph H
authors: JH
authors: Lee
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Mayeux
authors: Nicole
authors: N
authors: Schupf
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D002423:Cause of Death; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000097:blood / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000401:mortality*; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D011336:Probability; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol