TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiovascular health and subclinical atherosclerosis in second generation South Asian Americans
T2 - The MASALA study
AU - Shah, Nilay S.
AU - Siddique, Juned
AU - Huffman, Mark D.
AU - Kanaya, Alka M.
AU - Kandula, Namratha R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Cardiological Society of India
PY - 2021/9/1
Y1 - 2021/9/1
N2 - We describe cardiovascular health (CVH) in second-generation (U.S.-born) South Asian Americans in the MASALA study, a population for whom CVH is not previously described. CVH factors in second-generation (N = 21) compared with first-generation (N = 495) South Asian Americans included: total cholesterol (199 ± 31 versus 191 ± 35 mg/dL, p = 0.25), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (121 ± 27 versus 115 ± 30 mg/dL, p = 0.41), triglycerides (163 ± 197 versus 138 ± 72 mg/dL, p = 0.10), diet score (66 ± 8 versus 70 ± 6 points, p = 0.06), BMI (27.6 ± 4.9 versus 26.2 ± 4.1 kg/m2, p = 0.12), and CAC prevalence (26.3% versus 23.9%, p = 0.34). Age- and sex-adjusted differences were not statistically significant. Further investigation of CVH in this risk-enhanced population may help identify differences between second-generation and first-generation immigrant South Asians in the U.S.
AB - We describe cardiovascular health (CVH) in second-generation (U.S.-born) South Asian Americans in the MASALA study, a population for whom CVH is not previously described. CVH factors in second-generation (N = 21) compared with first-generation (N = 495) South Asian Americans included: total cholesterol (199 ± 31 versus 191 ± 35 mg/dL, p = 0.25), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (121 ± 27 versus 115 ± 30 mg/dL, p = 0.41), triglycerides (163 ± 197 versus 138 ± 72 mg/dL, p = 0.10), diet score (66 ± 8 versus 70 ± 6 points, p = 0.06), BMI (27.6 ± 4.9 versus 26.2 ± 4.1 kg/m2, p = 0.12), and CAC prevalence (26.3% versus 23.9%, p = 0.34). Age- and sex-adjusted differences were not statistically significant. Further investigation of CVH in this risk-enhanced population may help identify differences between second-generation and first-generation immigrant South Asians in the U.S.
KW - Cardiovascular risk factors
KW - Second generation
KW - South Asian Americans
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ihj.2021.07.010
DO - 10.1016/j.ihj.2021.07.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 34627581
AN - SCOPUS:85111658493
SN - 0019-4832
VL - 73
SP - 629
EP - 632
JO - Indian Heart Journal
JF - Indian Heart Journal
IS - 5
ER -