Ethnic differences in long-term improvement of angina following revascularization or medical management: A comparison between south Asians and white Europeans

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 168-174

  Zaman, M Justin ^a   Crook, Angela M ^a   Junghans, Cornelia ^a   Fitzpatrick, Natalie K ^a   Feder, Gene ^b   Timmis, Adam D ^b   Hemingway, Harry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Prognosis; South Asian; Stable angina

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ASIA; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 66649117561     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdn099     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. McKeigue PM, Shah B, Marmot MG. Relation of central obesity and insulin resistance with high diabetes prevalence and cardiovascular risk in South Asians. Lancet 1991;337(8738):382-386
2. Sheth T, Nair C, Nargundkar M et al. Cardiovascular and cancer mortality among Canadians of European, south Asian and Chinese origin from 1979 to 1993: an analysis of 1.2 million deaths. Can Med Assoc J 1999;161(2):132-138
3. Wild S, McKeigue P. Cross sectional analysis of mortality by country of birth in England and Wales, 1970-1992. Br Med J 1997;314(7082):705-710
4. Fischbacher CM, Bhopal R, Povey C et al. Record linked retrospective cohort study of 4.6 million people exploring ethnic variations in disease: myocardial infarction in South Asians. BMC Public Health 2007;7(1):142.
5. Elahi M, Chetty G, Matata B. Ethnic differences in the management of coronary heart disease patients: lessons to be learned in indo-asians. Med Princ Pract 2006;15(1):69-73.
6. Feder G, Crook AM, Magee P et al. Ethnic differences in invasive management of coronary disease: prospective cohort study of patients undergoing angiography. Br Med J 2002;324(7336):511-516
7. Fox K, Garcia MA, Ardissino D et al. Guidelines on the management of stable angina pectoris: executive summary: the Task Force on the Management of Stable Angina Pectoris of the European Society of Cardiology. Eur Heart J 2006;27(11):1341-1381
8. Hemingway H, McCallum A, Shipley M et al. Incidence and prognostic implications of stable angina pectoris among women and men. JAMA 2006;295(21):1404-1411
9. McCormick A, Fleming D, Charlton J. Morbidity Statistics from General Practice. Fourth National Study, 1991-1992. London: HMSO, Royal College of General Practitioners, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Department of Health, 1995.
10. Donahoe SM, Stewart GC, McCabe CH et al. Diabetes and mortality following acute coronary syndromes. JAMA 2007;298(7):765-775
11. Health and Social Care Information Centre. Health Survey for England: Health of Ethnic Minorities. London: Health Surveys Unit of the National Centre for Social Research and Royal Free and University College Medical School, 2004.
12. Kaul P, Lytle BL, Spertus JA et al. Influence of racial disparities in procedure use on functional status outcomes among patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation 2005;111(10):1284-1290
13. Campeau L. The Canadian Cardiovascular Society grading of angina pectoris revisited 30 years later. Can J Cardiol 2002;18(4):371-379
14. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. Standard Occupational Classification. London: HMSO, 1991.
15. Hemingway H, Crook AM, Feder G et al. Underuse of coronary revascularization procedures in patients considered appropriate candidates for revascularization. N Engl J Med 2001;344(9):645-654
16. Pocock SJ, Henderson RA, Seed P et al. Quality of life, employment status, and anginal symptoms after coronary angioplasty or bypass surgery: 3-year follow-up in the Randomized Intervention Treatment of Angina (RITA) Trial. Circulation 1996;94(2):135-142
17. Britton A, Shipley M, Marmot M et al. Does access to cardiac investigation and treatment contribute to social and ethnic differences in coronary heart disease? Whitehall II prospective cohort study. Br Med J 2004;329(7461):318.
18. Akiyama T, Moussa I, Reimers B et al. Angiographic and clinical outcome following coronary stenting of small vessels: a comparison with coronary stenting of large vessels. J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;32(6):1610-1618
19. Ambepityia G, Kopelman PG, Ingram D et al. Exertional myocardial ischemia in diabetes: a quantitative analysis of anginal perceptual threshold and the influence of autonomic function. J Am Coll Cardiol 1990;15(1):72-77
20. Zaman MJ, Junghans C, Sekhri N et al. Presentation of stable angina pectoris among women and South Asian people. Can Med Assoc J 2008;179(7):659-667