PROCOR: Income and CAD

[Opie <opie@capeheart.uct.ac.za>]

Dear PROCOR,  

RE message from Dennis Raphael, 11 Sept 2003

While the Canadian analysis might have delineated an important issue 
such as the CAD risk of income disparity, may I  draw your attention 
to the situation in South Africa where the average "white" income far 
exceeds the "black" income (sorry to use these apparently negative 
ethnic terms, but at least we then know what we are talking about).

Yet CAD is much more common in whites.

And in blacks, the rising incidence in CAD matches the rising income.

In the INTERHEART study, Salim Yusuf, also of Canada, found that the 
standard risk factors could be applied to all the different countries 
studied, and that was despite all the different incomes. 

Thanks for taking my views into account.

Prof Lionel H Opie
Director, Hatter Institute
Chris Barnard Building
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town
OBSERVATORY 7925
South Africa

Tel +27 21 406 6358
Fax +27 21 447 8789
Email opie@capeheart.uct.ac.za

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