Black Women and Transthyretin Amyloidosis: Insights From the Women's Health Initiative

JACC Heart Fail. 2023 Sep;11(9):1200-1202. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2023.04.020. Epub 2023 Jun 21.

Authors

Rodney H Falk¹, Cesia Gallegos Kattan²

Affiliations

¹ Brigham and Women's Amyloidosis Hospital Amyloidosis Program and Section of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts, USA. Electronic address: rfalk@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Program, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

PMID: 37354147
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2023.04.020

No abstract available

Keywords: amyloidosis; cardiomyopathy; epidemiology studies.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Amyloid Neuropathies, Familial* / epidemiology
Black or African American
Cardiomyopathies*
Female
Heart Failure*
Humans
Prealbumin / genetics
Women's Health

Substances

Prealbumin

Supplementary concepts

Amyloidosis, Hereditary, Transthyretin-Related