Racial and Ethnic Differences in All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: The MESA Study.
Wendy S PostKarol E WatsonSpencer HansenAaron R FolsomMoyses SzkloSteven J C SheaR Graham BarrGregory BurkeAlain G BertoniNorrina AllenJames S PankowJoao Augusto Costa LimaJerome I RotterJoel Daniel KaufmanW Craig JohnsonRichard A KronmalAna V Diez-RouxRobyn L McClellandPublished in: Circulation (2022)
These results highlight persistent racial and ethnic differences in overall and CVD mortality, largely attributable to social determinants of health, and support the need to identify and act on systemic factors that shape differences in health across racial and ethnic groups.