In a “Call to Action” contained in a new scientific statement, the\u00a0American Heart Association says that more research is needed on cardiovascular disease in Asian-Americans.<\/p>\n
“Available research shows that subgroups of Asian-Americans are at increased risk of complications and death from cardiovascular disease; however, Asian-Americans are often studied as a group, which masks the differences within this heterogeneous population,\u201d according to Latha Palaniappan, chair of the AHA committee that wrote the advisory, in an AHA press release.\u00a0The statement is published in Circulation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Among the many details included in the statement, the report notes that Asian Indians and Filipinos are at increased risk for coronary disease, while Japanese- and Chinese-Americans are at lower risk for coronary disease but at higher risk for stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a “Call to Action” contained in a new scientific statement, the\u00a0American Heart Association says that more research is needed on cardiovascular disease in Asian-Americans. “Available research shows that subgroups of Asian-Americans are at increased risk of complications and death from cardiovascular disease; however, Asian-Americans are often studied as a group, which masks the differences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[320,318,319],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-aha-advisory","tag-asian-americans","tag-demographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}