Table 5.
Number of cardiovascular events and 10-year event rate by ethnicity and AHA risk category
High risk | At-risk | Optimal risk | Not in any category |
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N (%/10-years) | ||||||||
White | 3011 | (36.0%) | 6498 | (8.9%) | 172 | (3.6%) | 637 | (4.4%) |
Black | 581 | (29.1%) | 694 | (8.9%) | 7 | (4.0%) | 17 | (2.7%) |
Hispanic | 115 | (18.9%) | 185 | (5.5%) | 3 | (2.2%) | 15 | (2.8%) |
Asian | 71 | (22.3%) | 121 | (6.1%) | 2 | (1.0%) | 12 | (2.1%) |
Cardiovascular events included myocardial infarction/coronary death/stroke/hospitalized angina P-value from a likelihood ratio test examining the interaction of ethnicity with risk category = 0.002; result was the same when “Not in any category” women were combined with “Optimal” or with “at-risk” women or when “Not in any category” women were excluded.