ArticleBMJ open2013
Lifetime risk of developing coronary heart disease in Aboriginal Australians: a cohort study.
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- Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in primary care.Internal medicine journal · 2025Article
- Future burden of myocardial infarction in Australia: impact on health outcomes between 2019 and 2038.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2024Article
- Assessment of Lifetime Risk for Cardiovascular Disease: Time to Move Forward.Current cardiology reviews · 2024Review
- The lifetime risk of developing type II diabetes in an urban community in Mumbai: findings from a ten-year retrospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Validation study of GRACE risk scores in indigenous and non-indigenous patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndrome.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectivesLifetime risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) is an important yardstick by which policy makers, clinicians and the general public can assess and promote the awareness and prevention of CHD. The lifetime risk in Aboriginal people is not known. Using a cohort with up to 20 years of follow-up, we estimated the lifetime risk of CHD in Aboriginal people.
designA cohort study.
settingA remote Aboriginal region.
participants1115 Aboriginal people from one remote tribal group who were free from CHD at baseline were followed for up to 20 years.
main outcome measuresDuring the follow-up period, new CHD incident cases were identified through hospital and death records. We estimated the lifetime risks of CHD with and without adjusting for the presence of competing risk of death from non-CHD causes.
resultsParticipants were followed up for 17 126 person-years, during which 185 developed CHD and 144 died from non-CHD causes. The average age at which the first CHD event occurred was 48 years for men and 49 years for women. The risk of developing CHD increased with age until 60 years and then decreased with age. Lifetime cumulative risk without adjusting for competing risk was 70.7% for men and 63.8% for women. Adjusting for the presence of competing risk of death from non-CHD causes, the lifetime risk of CHD was 52.6% for men and 49.2% for women.
conclusionsLifetime risk of CHD is as high as one in two in both Aboriginal men and women. The average age of having first CHD events was under 50 years, much younger than that reported in non-Aboriginal populations. Our data provide useful knowledge for health education, screening and prevention of CHD in Aboriginal people.
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