Heart 2000;83:267-271 ( March )

Cardiovascular medicine

Racial variation in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in essential hypertension R S Khattar^a, J D Swales^b, R Senior^a, A Lahiri^a

^a Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospital NHS Trust and Institute for Medical Research, Watford Road, Harrow HA1 3UJ, UK, ^b Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK

Correspondence to: Dr Lahiri email: nphcardiac{at}compuserve.com

Accepted 11 October 1999

OBJECTIVESTo perform a longitudinal comparison of morbidity and mortality among white, south Asian and Afro-Caribbean hypertensive patients in relation to baseline demographic characteristics and clinic and ambulatory blood pressure variables.
DESIGNObservational follow up study.
SETTINGDistrict general hospital and community setting in Harrow, England.
PATIENTS528 white, 106 south Asian, and 54 Afro-Caribbean subjects with essential hypertension who had undergone 24 hour ambulatory intra-arterial blood pressure monitoring.
INTERVENTIONSFollow up for assessment of all cause morbidity and mortality over a mean (SD) of 9.2 (4.1) years.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURESNon-cardiovascular death, coronary death, cerebrovascular death, peripheral vascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal stroke, coronary revascularisation.
RESULTSSouth Asians had the highest all cause event rate of 3.46, compared with 2.50 (NS) and 0.90 (p = 0.002) events/100 patient-years for whites and Afro-Caribbeans, respectively. This was because of an excess of coronary events (2.86 v 1.32 events/100 patient-years in south Asians v whites, respectively; p = 0.002). Age (p < 0.001), sex (p < 0.001), race (south Asians : whites, hazard ratio 1.79; p = 0.008), diabetes (p = 0.05), previous history of cardiovascular disease (p < 0.001), and 24 hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure (p = 0.006) were independent predictors of time to a first event. Clinic blood pressure did not provide additional prognostic information.
CONCLUSIONSSouth Asian origin was an independent predictor of all cause events, mainly because of an excess of coronary events in this group. Ambulatory but not clinic blood pressure was of additional value in predicting subsequent morbidity and mortality.


Keywords: race; hypertension; prognosis; ambulatory blood pressure

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