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1. 1. The records of ninety Negro patients with acute myocardial infarction have been reviewed. 2. 2. The findings indicate that a higher index of suspicion would lead to more frequent diagnosis and better treatment of this potentially fatal disease in the Negro. 3. 3. The clinical manifestations, age-sex incidence, laboratory findings and immediate mortality rate (death within thirty days) have been compared with those of a similarly studied group of 229 white patients in the same geographic area. 4. 4. Generally the clinical manifestations were the same in the two groups. 5. 5. The incidence of precordial pain as a presenting symptom was 85 per cent in the Negro group and 90 per cent in the white group. 6. 6. The sex incidence in the Negro series was almost equal whereas in the white series the ratio of males to females was 3:1. 7. 7. A higher incidence of hypertension was found among the Negroes. 8. 8. A higher incidence of diabetes mellitus was found among females, both in the Negro and the white patients. 9. 9. The immediate mortality was lower among the Negro patients, 26 per cent, than among white patients, 41 per cent. |
