Journal article
Bundle branch block and other cardiovascular disease risk factors: US–Japan comparison
International journal of cardiology, v 143(3), pp 432-440
2010
PMID: 19157582
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Abstract
Little is known about the prevalence of bundle branch block (BBB) and its association with other cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in the general population. The present study aims to describe the prevalence and examine this association using data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES-III) and 1990 Japan National Survey on Circulatory Disorders.
A cross-sectional analytical study design was used in the study with a focus on the differences in the prevalence of left and right BBB (LBBB and RBBB) and their relation to other CVD risk factors between American and Japanese people aged ≥
40 years.
(1) Age-adjusted prevalences of LBBB per 1000 population were 5.2 and 1.9 for the US and Japan samples (
p
<
0.001). No significant difference in the prevalence of RBBB was observed between the two population samples (25.3‰ vs. 24.2‰). (2) LBBB and RBBB were significantly associated with several other CVD risk factors. (3) Multivariate logistic analyses indicated that LBBB and RBBB were significantly associated with increased age, SBP, glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and sex and BMI (for RBBB only) in the US sample. Significant relations of LBBB to age, history of stroke and diabetes; and of RBBB to age, sex, total protein and GFR were observed in the Japanese sample.
The American sample has significantly higher prevalence of LBBB than the Japanese sample. BBB is strongly associated with several other CVD risk factors, but the strengths of these associations are different between the US and Japan samples.
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- Title
- Bundle branch block and other cardiovascular disease risk factors: US–Japan comparison
- Creators
- Longjian Liu - Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics of School of Public Health, and Division of Cardiology of College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USATomonori Okamura - Department of Preventive Cardiology, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, JapanTakashi Kadowaki - Department of Health Sciences, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Otsu, JapanYoshitaka Murakami - Department of Health Sciences, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Otsu, JapanAtsushi Hozawa - Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University of Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, JapanYoshikuni Kita - Department of Health Sciences, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Otsu, JapanNaoyuki Takashima - Department of Health Sciences, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Otsu, JapanNagako Okuda - Department of Health Sciences, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Otsu, JapanAkira Okayama - The First Institute for Health Promotion and Health Care, Japan Anti-tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, JapanHirotsugu Ueshima - Department of Health Sciences, Shiga University of Medical Sciences, Otsu, Japan
- Publication Details
- International journal of cardiology, v 143(3), pp 432-440
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ireland Ltd
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000281874500037
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77956613279
- Other Identifier
- 991014878011104721
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- Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems