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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Sep 26;60(17):10.1016/j.jacc.2012.07.022. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.07.022

TABLE 2.

Race-specific incidence rates of heart failure per 100,000 person-years, the ARIC cohort study, 1987–2008.

African Americans
 Caucasians
Age group N. events Incidence
rate/100,000		 N. events Incidence
rate/100,000
45–54 years 34 260 40 132
55–64 years 238 818 308 379
65–74 years 334 1,581 662 946
>75 years 110 2,410 376 2,039
Total 716 1,126* 1,386 676*

ARIC, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study; HF, heart failure;

*

HF incidence rate is age-adjusted