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Acute myocardial infarction among Navajo Indians, 1976-83.

J L Coulehan, G Lerner, K Helzlsouer, T K Welty and J McLaughlin

We found that from 1976 through 1983 the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) diagnosed among Navajo Indians remained low (0.5 per 1,000 persons age 30 years or more), although the incidence in women appears to be climbing. Navajo AMI patients are more likely to be hypertensive and diabetic than age- and sex-matched patients with gallbladder disease. Twenty-four per cent die within one month of AMI.

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