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Hispanic Women's Hearts at High Risk Mar. 06, 2007 Hispanic women develop cardiac risk factors much earlier than white women, typically exhibiting the heart health of a white woman 10 years older, a new study finds. The research suggests that being Hispanic may be an independent risk factor for heart disease, and that these women need to be identified and treated earlier. "The tendency for medical practice is to assume that Hispanics have a delayed onset or less prevalence of cardiac disease, and our study shows that they have earlier onset and the same risk as Caucasians," said study author Dr. John Teeters, a cardiology fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y. "Physicians should be more aggressively targeting this population for identification of risk factors such as cholesterol and obesity and recognizing that a 20- or 30-year-old Hispanic may have the same risk factors as a 30- or 40-year-old Caucasian," he said. Teeters was to present the findings Friday at the American Heart Association's annual conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, in Orlando, Fla. Source : Emaxhealth |