Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Symptoms in Four Major Racial/Ethnic Groups of Midlife Women: A Secondary Analysis

Women and Health

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 525-547

  Im, Eun Ok ^a   Ham, Ok Kyung ^a,b   Chee, Eunice ^c   Chee, Wonshik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular symptoms; ethnicity; midlife women; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERNET; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84931572855     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03630242.2015.1022813     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. N.E.Avis,, R.Stellato, S.Crawford, J.Bromberger, P.Ganz, V.Cain, and M.Kagawa-Singer. 2001. Is there a menopausal syndrome? Menopausal status and symptoms across racial/ethnic groups. Social Science & Medicine 52: 345–56. doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00147-7
2. M.S.Birru,, K.A.Matthews, R.C.Thurston, M.M.Brooks, S.Ibrahim, E.Barinas-Mitchell, I.Janssen, and K.Sutton-Tyrrell, and SWAN Heart Study. 2011. African-American ethnicity and cardiovascular risk factors are related to aortic pulse-wave velocity progression. American Journal of Hypertension 24: 809–15. 10.1038/ajh.2011.57
3. J.Cohen,, P.Cohen, S.G.West, and L.S.Aiken. 2003. Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis in the behavioral sciences. 3rd. ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
4. M.Dodd,, S.Janson, N.Facione, J.Faucett, E.S.Froelicher, J.Humphreys, K.Lee, 2001. Advancing the science of symptom management. Journal of Advanced Nursing 33: 668–76. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01697.x
5. A.T.H.Frank,, B.Zhao, P.O.Jose, K.M.J.Azar, S.P.Fortmann, and L.P.Palaniappan. 2014. Racial/ethnic differences in dyslipidemia patterns. Circulation 129: 570–79. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.005757
6. E.B.Gold,, A.Colvin, N.Avis, J.Bromberger, G.A.Greendale, L.Powell, B.Sternfeld, and K.Matthews. 2006. Longitudinal analysis of the association between vasomotor symptoms and race/ethnicity across the menopausal transition: Study of women’s health across the nation. American Journal of Public Health 96: 1226–35. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.066936
7. E.-O.Im, 2003. Symptoms experienced during menopausal transition: Korean women in South Korea and the United States. Journal of Transcultural Nursing 14: 321–28. doi:10.1177/1043659603257160
8. E.-O.Im, 2006. The midlife women’s symptom index (MSI). Health Care for Women International 27: 268–87. doi:10.1080/07399330500506600
9. E.O.Im,, S.J.Chang, Y.Ko, W.Chee, A.Stuifbergen, and L.Walker. 2012. A national internet survey on midlife women’s attitudes toward physical activity. Nursing Research 61: 342–52. doi:10.1097/NNR.0b013e31825da85a
10. E.-O.Im,, B.Lee, W.Chee, A.Brown, and S.Dormire. 2010. Menopausal symptoms among four major ethnic groups in the United States. Western Journal of Nursing Research 32: 540–65. doi:10.1177/0193945909354343
11. Institute of Medicine Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease. 2010. Promoting cardiovascular health in the developing world: A critical challenge to achieve global health. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
12. N.A.Khan,, S.S.Daskalopoulou, I.Karp, M.J.Eisenberg, R.Pelletier, M.A.Tsadok, K.Dasgupta, C.M.Norris, and L.Pilote, Genesis Praxy Team. 2013. Sex differences in acute coronary syndrome symptom presentation in young patients. Journal of the American Medical Association: Internal Medicine 173: 1863–71.
13. J.C.McSweeney,, L.L.Lefler, E.P.Fischer, A.J.Naylor Jr., and L.K.Evans. 2007. Women’s prehospital delay associated with myocardial infarction: Does race really matter? The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 22: 279–85. doi:10.1097/01.JCN.0000278958.98124.6e
14. National Center for Health Statistics. 2005. Health, United States 2005. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
15. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. 2011. What are the signs and symptoms of heart disease? http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/hdw/signs.html (accessed April 14, 2015).
16. D.W.Osgood, 2000. Poisson-based regression analysis of aggregate crime rates. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16: 21–43. doi:10.1023/A:1007521427059
17. J.A.M.Pérez,, F.C.Garcia, S.Palacios, and M.Pérez. 2008. Epidemiology of risk factors and symptoms associated with menopause in Spanish women. Maturitas 62: 30–6. doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2008.10.003
18. J.F.Randolph, Jr.,, M.F.Sowers, E.B.Gold, B.A.Mohr, J.Luborsky, N.Santoro, D.S.McConnell, 2003. Reproductive hormones in the early menopausal transition: Relationship to ethnicity, body size, and menopausal status. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 88: 1516–22. doi:10.1210/jc.2002-020777
19. G.Richard-Davis,, and M.Wellons. 2013. Racial and ethnic differences in the physiology and clinical symptoms of menopause. Seminars in Reproductive Medicine 31: 380–86. doi:10.1055/s-00000072
20. G.M.C.Rosano,, C.Vitale, G.Marazzi, and M.Volterrani. 2007. Menopause and cardiovascular disease: The evidence. Climacteric 10(S1): 19–24. doi:10.1080/13697130601114917
21. L.J.Shaw,, C.N.B.Merz, V.Bittner, K.Kip, B.D.Johnson, S.E.Reis, S.F.Kelsey, 2008. Importance of socioeconomic status as a predictor of cardiovascular outcome and costs of care in women with suspected myocardial ischemia. Results from the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE). Journal of Women’s Health 17: 1081–92. doi:10.1089/jwh.2007.0596
22. M.H.Shishehbor,, D.Litaker, C.E.Pothier, and M.S.Lauer. 2006. Association of socioeconomic status with functional capacity, heart rate recovery, and all-cause mortality. Journal of the American Medical Association 295: 784–92.
23. R.M.Suinn,, C.Ahuna, and G.Khoom. 1992. The Suinn-Lew Asian self-identity acculturation scale: Concurrent and factorial validation. Educational and Psychological Measurement 52: 1041–46.
24. R.M.Suinn,, K.Rickard-Figueroa, S.Lew, and P.Vigil. 1987. The Suinn-Lew Asian self-identity acculturation scale: An initial report. Educational and Psychological Measurement 47: 401–7.
25. K.Sutton-Tyrrell,, R.P.Wildman, K.A.Matthews, C.Chae, B.L.Lasley, S.Brockwell, R.C.Pasternak, 2005. Sex-hormone-binding globulin and the free androgen index are related to cardiovascular risk factors in multiethnic premenopausal and perimenopausal women enrolled in the Study of Women Across the Nation (SWAN). Circulation 111: 1242–49. doi:10.1161/01.CIR.0000157697.54255.CE
26. N.Taechakraichana,, C.F.Holinka, C.J.Haines, R.Subramaniam, X.W.Tian, and M.K.Ausmanas. 2007. Distinct lipid/lipoprotein profiles and hormonal responsiveness in nine ethnic groups of postmenopausal Asian women: The Pan-Asia Menopause (PAM) study. Climacteric: The Journal of the International Menopause Society 10: 225–37. doi:10.1080/13697130701352375
27. R.C.Thurston,, K.Sutton-Tyrrell, S.A.Everson-Rose, R.Hess, and K.A.Matthews. 2008. Hot flashes and subclinical cardiovascular disease: Findings from the study of women’s health across the nation heart study. Circulation 118: 1234–40. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.776823
28. H.Tindle,, E.Davis, and L.Kuller. 2010. Attitudes and cardiovascular disease. Maturitas 67: 108–13. doi:10.1016/j.maturitas.2010.04.020
29. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2013. 2008 physical activity guidelines for Americans. http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/guidelines/ (accessed April 15).
30. H.L.Wang,, M.K.Tai, H.M.Hung, and C.H.Chen. 2013. Unique symptoms at midlife of women with osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease in Taiwan. Menopause 20: 315–21.
31. G.Weiss,, J.H.Skurnick, L.T.Goldsmith, N.F.Santoro, and S.J.Park. 2004. Menopause and hypothalamic-pituitary sensitivity to estrogen. Journal of the American Medical Association 292: 2991–96.