Resting Heart Rate and Long-term Outcomes Among the African American Population

Importance

Increased resting heart rate is associated with worse outcomes in studies of mostly white populations, but its significance is not well established in African Americans persons whose cardiac comorbidities and structural abnormalities differ.

Objective

To study the prognostic utility of heart rate in a community-based African American cohort in the Jackson Heart Study.

Design, Setting, and Participants

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