2024
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Faust J, Renton B, Bongiovanni T, Chen A, Sheares K, Du C, Essien U, Fuentes-Afflick E, Haywood T, Khera R, King T, Li S, Lin Z, Lu Y, Marshall A, Ndumele C, Opara I, Loarte-Rodriguez T, Sawano M, Taparra K, Taylor H, Watson K, Yancy C, Krumholz H. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Age-Specific All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2438918. PMID: 39392630, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.38918.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCOVID-19 public health emergencyNon-HispanicPublic health emergencyOther Pacific IslanderExcess mortalityAlaska NativesUS populationExcess deathsRates of excess mortalityCross-sectional study analyzed dataYears of potential lifeMortality relative riskNon-Hispanic whitesCross-sectional studyPacific IslandersStudy analyzed dataAll-cause mortalityEthnic groupsMortality disparitiesMortality ratioTotal populationDeath certificatesEthnic disparitiesMain OutcomesDecedent age
2020
Electrocardiographic ST-T Abnormities Are Associated With Stroke Risk in the REGARDS Study
Sawano M, Yuan Y, Kohsaka S, Inohara T, Suzuki T, Okamura T, Howard G, Howard V, Judd S, Soliman E, Cushman M. Electrocardiographic ST-T Abnormities Are Associated With Stroke Risk in the REGARDS Study. Stroke 2020, 51: 1100-1106. PMID: 32126939, PMCID: PMC7122793, DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.119.028069.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIschemic strokeREGARDS studyMultivariable Cox proportional hazards regressionIncident coronary artery diseaseCox proportional hazards regressionAge-adjusted incidence ratesCalculate hazard ratiosFuture ischemic strokeIncident ischemic strokeMinnesota ECG ClassificationStroke risk factorsRisk of strokeCoronary artery diseaseProportional hazards regressionCoronary heart diseaseMinor ECG abnormalitiesNonspecific ST-segmentT-wave abnormalitiesIncident strokePrior strokeArtery diseaseHazard ratioStroke riskHazards regressionBaseline ECG