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A comparative analysis of risk factors and stroke risk for Asian and non-Asian men: The Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration

Authors
 Karice K. Hyun  ;  Rachel R. Huxley  ;  Hisatomi Arima  ;  Jean Woo  ;  Tai Hing Lam  ;  Hirotsugu Ueshima  ;  Xianghua Fang  ;  Sanne A. E. Peters  ;  Sun Ha Jee  ;  Graham G. Giles  ;  Federica Barzi  ;  Mark Woodward 
Citation
 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE, Vol.8(8) : 606-611, 2013 
Journal Title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE
ISSN
 1747-4930 
Issue Date
2013
MeSH
Adult ; Age Distribution ; Aged ; Asia/epidemiology ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Blood Pressure ; Body Mass Index ; Cholesterol/blood ; Cohort Studies ; Diabetes Mellitus/epidemiology ; European Continental Ancestry Group ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Risk Factors ; Smoking/adverse effects ; Smoking/epidemiology ; Stroke/epidemiology*
Keywords
Asia ; epidemiology ; haemorrhagic stroke ; ischemic stroke ; meta-analysis ; non-Asia ; risk factors
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
The risk of stroke is high in men among both Asian and non-Asian populations, despite differences in risk factor profiles; whether risk factors act similarly in these populations is unknown.
AIM:
To study the associations between five major risk factors and stroke risk, comparing Asian with non-Asian men.
METHODS:
We obtained data from the Asia Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, a pooled analysis of individual participant data from 44 studies involving 386 411 men with 9·4 years follow-up. Using cohorts from Asia and Australia/New Zealand Cox models were fitted to estimate risk factor associations for ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke.
RESULTS:
We identified significant, positive associations between all five risk factors and risk of ischemic stroke. The associations between body mass index, smoking, and diabetes with ischemic stroke were comparable for men from Asia and Australia/New Zealand. The association between systolic blood pressure and ischemic stroke was stronger for Asian than Australia/New Zealand cohorts, whereas the reverse was true for total cholesterol. For haemorrhagic stroke, only systolic blood pressure and smoking were associated with increased risk, although the relationship with systolic blood pressure was significantly stronger for men from Asia than Australia/New Zealand (P interaction  = 0·03), whereas the reverse was true for smoking (P interaction  = 0·001). There was an inverse trend of total cholesterol with haemorrhagic stroke, significant only for Asian men.
CONCLUSIONS:
Men from the Asia-Pacific region share common risk factors for stroke. Strategies aimed at lowering population levels of systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, body mass index, smoking, and diabetes are likely to be beneficial in reducing stroke risk, particularly for ischemic stroke, across the region.
Full Text
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijs.12166/abstract
DOI
10.1111/ijs.12166
Appears in Collections:
4. Graduate School of Public Health (보건대학원) > Graduate School of Public Health (보건대학원) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Jee, Sun Ha(지선하) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9519-3068
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/89223
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