Feature | Peeling Back the Layers: Understanding CV Health in Asian American Communities – American College of Cardiology
When Latha P. Palaniappan, MD, MS, FACC, professor of medicine at Stanford University, was 13, her dad, then 39, died from a heart attack. So it made sense that when she went to medical school, Palaniappan, who is South Asian, started looking into the risk of heart disease in Asian Americans. Everything she read, however, showed that Asian Americans were less likely to die of heart disease than any other ethnicity. “I thought, ‘that’s surprising,'” she says. Indeed, the age-adjusted mortality rate
