Titre : | Much lower prevalence of coronary calcium detected by electron-beam computed tomography among men aged 40-49 in Japan than in the US, despite a less favorable profile of major risk factors. Commentary : Nutritional epidemiology. (2005) |
Auteurs : | Akira SEKIKAWA ; Daniel EDMUNDOWICZ ; Katsuya EGAWA ; Elizabeth-F HALL, disc. ; Takashi KADOWAKI ; Hideyuki KANDA ; Atsunori KASHIWAGI ; Yoshiyuki KITA ; Lewis-H KULLER ; Hiroshi MAEGAWA ; Kenichi MITSUNAMI ; Kiyoshi MURATA ; Yasuyuki NAKAMURA ; Yoshihiko NISHIO ; Tomonori OKAMURA ; Kim SUTTON-TYRRELL ; Shinji TAMAKI ; Yoshiki UENO ; Hirotsugu UESHIMA ; . WAHID RIAD ZAKY ; Shiga University of Medical Science. Department of Health Science. Otsu. JPN ; Shiga University of Medical Science. Department of Internal Medicine Cardiology. JPN ; Shiga University of Medical Science. Department of Internal Medicine Endocrinology and Metabolism. Otsu. JPN ; University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School of Pubic Health. Department of Epidemiology. Pittsburgh. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 34, n° 1, 2005) |
Pagination : | 173-180 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Artériosclérose ; Facteur risque ; Epidémiologie ; Calcium ; Scanographie ; Prévalence ; Japon ; Asie ; Etats Unis ; Amérique ; Etude comparée ; Homme ; Appareil circulatoire [pathologie] ; Vaisseau sanguin [pathologie] ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 3V5R0x5U. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background : Since World War II (WWII), exposures to westernized lifestyle have occurred in many non-Western countries, including Japan. National surveys showed that risk factor profiles for atherosclerosis around 1990 were similar in men in the post WWII birth cohorts in the US and Japan. We compared the degree of coronary calcium and other factors in men in the post WWII birth cohort : men aged 40-49 in the US and Japan. Methods : We conducted a cross-sectional study examining randomly selected 100 men from Kusatsu, Japan, and 100 men from Allegheny County, US. Coronary calcium was assessed using electron-beam computed tomography. Results : Systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL) - cholesterol, and smoking rates were higher among the Japanese (122.6+/-14.1 versus 113.7+/-9.6 mmHg, P0 was strikingly lower among the Japanese than the Americans (13% versus 47%, P |