Risk of Hospitalized Stroke in Men Enrolled in the Honolulu Heart Program and the Framingham Study
Open Access
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Stroke
- Vol. 33 (1), 230-236
- https://doi.org/10.1161/hs0102.101081
Abstract
Background and Purpose — Risk of death due to stroke in Japan is more than double the risk in the United States. It remains unknown why some ethnic groups are more prone to stroke than others. Our purpose was to compare the 20-year incidence of hospitalized stroke between Japanese-American men in the Honolulu Heart Program and white men in the Framingham Study. Methods — This was a 20-year follow-up study beginning around 1965, a population-based study on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and in Framingham, Mass. Participants were 7589 men in Honolulu and 1216 men in Framingham without prevalent coronary heart disease and stroke. Subjects were 45 to 68 years old when follow-up began. Main outcome measures were incident thromboembolic and hemorrhagic stroke. Results — Framingham men had a 40% excess of thromboembolic stroke compared with Honolulu men after adjustment for age and other risk factors (62/1000 versus 45/1000, respectively, P Conclusions — The incidence of thromboembolic stroke requiring hospitalization is markedly less in Honolulu than in Framingham. The difference in stroke incidence rates observed cannot be explained by the traditional risk factors. Further studies are needed to identify factors that protect Japanese-American men in Honolulu from stroke.Keywords
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