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Hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular risk in ethnic minorities in the UK

Department of Community Health Sciences, St Georges Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK, f.cappuccio{at}sghms.ac.uk

Antonio Barbato

Sally M Kerry

Mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke and end-stage renal failure (ESRF) is high in South Asian (Indo-Asian) migrants in the UK. This is associated with a high prevalence of diabetes and hypertension.

Mortality from stroke and ESRF is also high in migrants to the UK of black African origin. However, CHD mortality is low in this group. This pattern of mortality is also associated with a high prevalence of hypertension and diabetes.

Conventional risk factors, such as cigarette smoking and hypercholesterolaemia, are less prevalent in ethnic minority populations in the UK and unlikely to explain the differences seen between groups, although each risk factor is likely to contribute to the variation in vascular disease within each group.

Key Words: Hypertension • diabetes • metabolic syndrome • ethnicity • cardiovascular disease.

The British Journal of Diabetes & Vascular Disease, Vol. 3, No. 4, 286-293 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/14746514030030041101


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