Community pathology of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease in New Orleans. Morphologic findings in young black and white men
Newman, W.P.; Strong, J.P.; Johnson, W.D.; Oalmann, M.C.; Tracy, R.E.; Rock, W.A.
Laboratory Investigation; A Journal of Technical Methods and Pathology 44(6): 496-501
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-6837 PMID: 7230735 Document Number: 172152
Mortality from coronary heart disease is greater in young black men than in their white counterparts. However, the morphological correlations of coronary heart disease, i.e., coronary artery stenosis and occlusion, thrombus and myocardial lesions, are strikingly similar in coronary heart disease deaths irrespective of race. Diseases related to atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease such as cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and chronic renal disease are also more frequent in young black men than in young white men, but the excess of coronary heart disease in black men is evident irrespective of those diseases. The findings are based on a community-wide survey of black and white men, 25 to 44 years old, who lived, died and were studied post mortem in Orleans Parish (county) Louisiana.