Young Black adults living in a socially disadvantaged community were found to have greater risk for early subclinical atherosclerosis compared with young Hispanic adults in the same community, researchers reported.
Researchers posit that these findings from the FAMILIA study may be indicative of emerging or undiscovered CV factors attributable to atherosclerotic CVD risk among Black individuals, according to the results published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
“This cross-sectional study of adult FAMILIA trial participants is one of the first to report the presence