Developmental Patterns of Coronary and Aortic Atherosclerosis in Young Negroes of Haiti and the United States
Authors: DALE GROOM
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1964)

Article1 November 1964Developmental Patterns of Coronary and Aortic Atherosclerosis in Young Negroes of Haiti and the United StatesDALE GROOM, M.D., F.A.C.P., E. E. MCKEE, M.D., WARREN ADKINS, VERGNIAUD PEAN, M.D., EDITH HUDICOURT, M.D.DALE GROOM, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, E. E. MCKEE, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, WARREN ADKINSSearch for more papers by this author, VERGNIAUD PEAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, EDITH HUDICOURT, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-61-5-900 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptStudies of human populations have contributed both impetus and insight to the problem of atherogenesis. They lack the precision, the normal controls of the planned animal experiment; they are fraught with untold variables, with barriers of language, culture, medical customs and nomenclature; yet they do deal with the end results in the human. They utilize great natural laboratories for investigation of a disease. Largely from them the idea has grown that coronary heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States, is rare among certain primitive populations of the world and that it may be in some way...References1. GROOMMCKEEWEBBGRANTPEANHUDICOURTDALLEMAND DEECFWVEJ: Coronary and aortic atherosclerosis in the Negroes of Haiti and the United States. Ann. Intern. Med. 51: 270, 1959. LinkGoogle Scholar2. Rapport Annuel Bio-Statistique de Service de la Sante Publique, 1949. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1954. Google Scholar3. EDWARDSWHITEDRY JENKTJ: The relationship of the degree of coronary atherosclerosis with age in men. Circulation 1: 645, 1950. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. 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C., and the Department of Pathology, Faculté de Médicine, University of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.This research was supported by grant HE-04085 from the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md.This paper was presented at the Forty-fifth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Atlantic City, N. J. on April 6, 1964.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dale Groom, M.D., Medical College of South Carolina, 55 Doughty St., Charleston 16, S. C. 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