Evolving Science on Cardiovascular Disease Among Hispanic/Latino Adults: JACC International

Amber Pirzada; Jianwen Cai; Gerardo Heiss; Daniela Sotres-Alvarez; Linda C Gallo; Marston E Youngblood; M Larissa Avilés-Santa; Hector M González; Carmen R Isasi; Robert Kaplan; John Kunz; James P Lash; David J Lee; Maria M Llabre; Frank J Penedo; Carlos J Rodriguez; Neil Schneiderman; Tamar Sofer; Gregory A Talavera; Bharat Thyagarajan; Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller; Martha L Daviglus

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2023.02.023

Evolving Science on Cardiovascular Disease Among Hispanic/Latino Adults: JACC International

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2023 Apr 18;81(15):1505-1520. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.02.023.

Authors

Amber Pirzada¹, Jianwen Cai², Gerardo Heiss³, Daniela Sotres-Alvarez², Linda C Gallo⁴, Marston E Youngblood², M Larissa Avilés-Santa⁵, Hector M González⁶, Carmen R Isasi⁷, Robert Kaplan⁸, John Kunz⁹, James P Lash¹⁰, David J Lee¹¹, Maria M Llabre¹², Frank J Penedo¹², Carlos J Rodriguez¹³, Neil Schneiderman¹², Tamar Sofer¹⁴, Gregory A Talavera⁴, Bharat Thyagarajan¹⁵, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller⁷, Martha L Daviglus¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: apirza2@uic.edu.
² Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
³ Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
⁵ Division of Clinical and Health Services Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁶ Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁹ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
¹¹ Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
¹² Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
¹³ Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
¹⁴ Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
¹⁶ Institute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

PMID: 37045521
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.02.023

Abstract

The landmark, multicenter HCHS/SOL (Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos) is the largest, most comprehensive, longitudinal community-based cohort study to date of diverse Hispanic/Latino persons in the United States. The HCHS/SOL aimed to address the dearth of comprehensive data on risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other chronic diseases in this population and has expanded considerably in scope since its inception. This paper describes the aims/objectives and data collection of the HCHS/SOL and its ancillary studies to date and highlights the critical and sizable contributions made by the study to understanding the prevalence of and changes in CVD risk/protective factors and the burden of CVD and related chronic conditions among adults of diverse Hispanic/Latino backgrounds. The continued follow-up of this cohort will allow in-depth investigations on cardiovascular and pulmonary outcomes in this population, and data from the ongoing ancillary studies will facilitate generation of new hypotheses and study questions.

Keywords: Hispanic/Latino; cardiovascular disease; cohort study; study design.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Cardiovascular Diseases* / epidemiology
Cohort Studies
Heart Disease Risk Factors*
Hispanic or Latino* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Multicenter Studies as Topic
Prevalence
Risk Factors
United States / epidemiology

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