984-P: African Women Have Lower Cardiometabolic Risk at Higher BMI than Men: The Africans in America Study

Cardiometabolic risk is linked to BMI but there is a lack of data on whether there are sex differences in the BMI of cardiometabolic risk in Africans. So we compared by sex, cardiometabolic risk and BMI in 192 African-born blacks living in America (men: 64%, age 40±10, (mean±SD)). Cardiometabolic risk was defined by Framingham Risk Score (FRS) which includes sex-specific thresholds for age, systolic BP, cholesterol, HDL, diabetes and smoking. In addition, the influence on FRS of alcohol consumption, fiber intake, education, income and exercise were evaluated. Even though BMI was higher in women (29.4±4.7 vs. 26.5±3.5, P Disclosure T. Hormenu: None. A. E. Sumner: None. A. Wentzel: None. M. Ishimwe: None. E. M. Shoup: None. N. H. Osei-tutu: None. A. Patterson: None. C. Dubose: None. L. Mabundo: None. M. F. Horlyck-romanovsky: None.