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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Rationale and design of the echocardiographic study of hispanics/latinos (ECHO-SOL)
Ethnicity and Disease, Volume 25, No. 2, Year 2015
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Description
Background: Information regarding the prevalence and determinants of cardiac structure and function (systolic and diastolic) among the various Hispanic background groups in the United States is limited. Methods and Results: The Echocardiographic Study of Latinos (ECHO-SOL) ancillary study recruited 1,824 participants through a stratifiedsampling process representative of the population- based Hispanic Communities Health Study - Study of Latinos (HCHS-SOL) across four sites (Bronx, NY; Chicago, Ill; San Diego, Calif; Miami, Fla). The HCHS-SOL baseline cohort did not include an echo exam. ECHO-SOL added the echocardiographic assessment of cardiac structure and function to an array of existing HCHS-SOL baseline clinical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic data and provides sufficient statistical power for comparisons among the Hispanic subgroups. Standard twodimensional (2D) echocardiography protocol, including M-mode, spectral, color and tissue Doppler study was performed. The main objectives were to: 1) characterize cardiac structure and function and its determinants among Hispanics and Hispanic subgroups; and 2) determine the contributions of specific psychosocial factors (acculturation and familismo) to cardiac structure and function among Hispanics. Conclusion: We describe the design, methods and rationale of currently the largest and most comprehensive study of cardiac structure and function exclusively among US Hispanics. ECHO-SOL aims to enhance our understanding of Hispanic cardiovascular health as well as help untangle the relative importance of Hispanic subgroup heterogeneity and sociocultural factors on cardiac structure and function. © 2016 International Society on Hypertension in Blacks.
Authors & Co-Authors
Rodriguez, Carlos Jose
United States, Winston Salem
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Allison, Matthew A.
United States, La Jolla
University of California, San Diego
Shah, Sanjiv Jayendra
United States, Chicago
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Bangdiwala, Shrikant I.
United States, Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kitzman, Dalane W.
United States, Winston Salem
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Deloukas, Panos C.
United States, Winston Salem
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Statistics
Citations: 19
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
ISSN:
1049510X
Research Areas
Genetics And Genomics
Noncommunicable Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Cohort Study