The Prevalence and Demographic Differences of Ischemic Heart Diseases

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2013
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Sulimani, Suha Makki '13
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MS in Health Outcomes Research
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Polimeni, John
Racz, Michael
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Chandrasekara, Ray
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AIMS: Estimate state-specific Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) hospital-based prevalence and recent trends by age, gender, race and ethnicity. We hypothesized that there are differences in the prevalence of IHD with respect to different ethnic backgrounds with different genders and age groups.
METHODS: The Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) database for the years 2000-2012 were used for this study. The research entailed adults, patient aged ≥18 years were included. By using SAS enterprise guide 5.1 software program, logistic regression were used to predict IHD based on gender, race, ethnicity, age and comorbidities.
RESULTS: The patients in the study were 58.0% female, 76.6% were white (vs. 23.4% black) and 5.8% Hispanic. Of the comorbidities listed, diabetes mellitus had the highest prevalence (20.6%) with renal failure the lowest (0.3%). Note that 64.2% have none of the listed risk factors while 2.7% have three or more. For the study population 22.4% of the records had ischemic heart disease. The prevalence of IHD consistently increases with age going from 1.1% IHD for the 18-39 age group to 40.4% IHD prevalence for the 80+ age group. Males had a higher rate of IHD (28.8%) vs. females (17.7%). Whites had a higher rate of IHD compared with blacks (24.7% vs. 14.6%) and non-Hispanics higher than Hispanics (22.3% vs. 15.7%). The bivariate relationships between each of the demographic and comorbid factors were all highly significant (p
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that aging play the most significant role in IHD. The importance of gender and race in the prevalence of IHD.
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Sulimani, Suha Makki. "The Prevalence and Demographic Differences of Ischemic Heart Diseases." Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, New York, Proquest/UMI, 2013.
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