Gerontology

Demography

Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities

Subclinical infection

Cohort

Cohort study

Environmental health

Heart failure

Physics

Optics

Population

Myocardial infarction

Internal medicine

Sociology

Prospective cohort study

Medicine

Disease

Cardiovascular health

Incidence (geometry)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) initiated community-based surveillance in 1987 for myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence and mortality and created a prospective cohort of 15,792 Black and White adults ages 45 to 64 years. The primary aims were to improve understanding of the decline in CHD mortality and identify determinants of subclinical atherosclerosis and CHD in Black and White middle-age adults. ARIC has examined areas including health disparities, genomics, heart failure, and prevention, producing more than 2,300 publications. Results have had strong clinical impact and demonstrate the importance of population-based research in the spectrum of biomedical research to improve health.

The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities) Study