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Challenges in preventing heart disease in hispanics: early lessons learned from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).

TitleChallenges in preventing heart disease in hispanics: early lessons learned from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL).
Publication TypePublication
Year2014
AuthorsSchneiderman N, Chirinos DA, M Avilés-Santa L, Heiss G
JournalProg Cardiovasc Dis
Volume57
Issue3
Pagination253-61
Date Published2014 Nov-Dec
ISSN1873-1740
KeywordsAdolescent, Adult, Aged, Cardiovascular Diseases, Cohort Studies, Female, Health Behavior, Health Services Accessibility, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Life Style, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, Young Adult
Abstract

The challenge of preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in US Hispanics depends upon being able to understand and communicate about the diversity within this population in terms of environmental exposures, health behaviors, socio-cultural experiences and genetic background to CVD risk factor profiles and disease burdens. Recent publications from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) launched by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have begun to accomplish this task. In this article we review some of the HCHS/SOL findings concerning cardiometabolic and other CVD risk factors and relate them to the need for increased access to health care and attention to lifestyle variables including nutrition. A major challenge that needs to be accomplished is to alert our lawmakers, public health officials, health care providers and the Hispanic population at large about how to lighten the CVD risk factor and disease burdens now carried by our Hispanic population.

DOI10.1016/j.pcad.2014.08.004
Alternate JournalProg Cardiovasc Dis
PubMed ID25212986
PubMed Central IDPMC4252509
Grant ListN01 HC065234 / HC / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC65236 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC65235 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01-HC65237 / HC / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC65234 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC65233 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01-HC65235 / HC / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01HC65237 / HL / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01-HC65233 / HC / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01-HC65234 / HC / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
N01-HC65236 / HC / NHLBI NIH HHS / United States
MS#: 
0005C
Manuscript Lead/Corresponding Author Affiliation: 
Field Center: Miami (University of Miami)
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