"Substantial" proportion of population at high risk of CVD

The prevalence of cardiovascular disease among non-Hispanic black men increased significantly from 1999-2002 to 2011-2014 by a "substantial" amount, according to the recently published results in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

"Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and some of them are preventable", Arch G. Mainous III, PhD Chief Department of Health Services Research, Management and Policy at the University of Florida, said Healio Family Medicine. "If we can identify who is at high risk of cardiovascular disease and then implement strategies to help these patients, we can do a better job at preventing it.That's why we did this research. "

The researchers performed a cross-sectional badysis of data from the 1999 National Health Survey and Nutritional Exam (mean age 54.1 years) to 2014 (mean age 55.3 years). without diagnosis of CVD. They then calculated the CVD risk of these individuals using the new risk score for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease from the American College of Cardiology / American Heart Association.

Researchers found that the prevalence of CVD among non-Hispanic black men increased from 53.5% in 1999-2002 to 65.2% in 2011-2014 using a 7.5% risk over 10 years .

"It's still a fairly high jump even with the new American Heart Association guidelines for cardiovascular disease," said Mainous.

He added that although the reasons for the high prevalence remain unclear, primary care physicians should not ignore the results.

"These numbers are alarming and should serve as a wake up call.We hope these results will help guide treatment and decrease the number of people or the proportion of people at high This would actually be a big win, "Mainous said in the interview.

The researchers also found that the prevalence of high risk level did not vary significantly over time for the entire population using the 7.5% risk level over 10 years and decreased significantly. at 10% risk level over 10 years. – by Janel Miller

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