‘One-size-fits-all’ flawed for assessing cardiovascular disease risk among Asian Americans

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‘One-size-fits-all’ flawed for assessing cardiovascular disease risk among Asian Americans

In a large, retrospective study covering data from the last two decades, death rates for cardiovascular diseases in the U.S. varied among people from various Asian ethnicity subgroups, with death rate trends that stagnated in some subgroups and increased in others, according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

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