Excess Cardiovascular Mortality Among Black Americans 2000-2022

Adith S Arun; Mitsuaki Sawano; Yuan Lu; Frederick Warner; César Caraballo; Rohan Khera; Melvin R Echols; Clyde W Yancy; Harlan M Krumholz

doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2024.06.004

Excess Cardiovascular Mortality Among Black Americans 2000-2022

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Aug 6;84(6):581-588. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.06.004. Epub 2024 Jun 18.

Authors

Adith S Arun¹, Mitsuaki Sawano², Yuan Lu³, Frederick Warner², César Caraballo⁴, Rohan Khera⁵, Melvin R Echols⁶, Clyde W Yancy⁷, Harlan M Krumholz⁸

Affiliations

¹ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
² Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁵ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Section of Health Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁷ Division of Cardiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁸ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 38901531
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.06.004

No abstract available

Keywords: age-adjusted mortality rates; cardiovascular racial disparities; health equity; social determinants of health; years of life lost.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Black or African American* / statistics & numerical data
Cardiovascular Diseases* / ethnology
Cardiovascular Diseases* / mortality
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
United States / epidemiology