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We aimed to compare the prevalence of subclinical\n              <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CVD<\/jats:styled-content>\n              and incidence of atherosclerotic\n              <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CVD<\/jats:styled-content>\n              and heart failure by\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              genotypes among self\u2010identified black participants of MESA (Multi\u2010Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis).\n            <\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec xml:lang=\"en\">\n            <jats:title>Methods and Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p xml:lang=\"en\">\n              Cross\u2010sectional associations of\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              genotypes (high\u2010risk=2 alleles; low\u2010risk=0 or 1 allele) with coronary artery calcification, carotid\u2010intimal media thickness, and left ventricular mass were evaluated using logistic and linear regression. Longitudinal associations of\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              genotypes with incident myocardial infarction, stroke, coronary heart disease, and congestive heart failure were examined using Cox regression. We adjusted for African ancestry, age, and sex. We also evaluated whether hypertension or kidney function markers explained the observed associations. Among 1746 participants with\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              genotyping (mean age 62\u00a0years, 55% women, mean cystatin C\u2013based estimated glomerular filtration rate 89\u00a0mL\/min per 1.73\u00a0m\n              <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n              , 12% with albuminuria), 12% had the high\u2010risk genotypes. We found no difference in prevalence or severity of coronary artery calcification, carotid\u2010intimal media thickness, or left ventricular mass by\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              genotypes. The\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              high\u2010risk group was 82% more likely to develop incident heart failure compared with the low\u2010risk group (95% confidence interval, 1.01\u20133.28). Adjusting for hypertension (hazard ratio, 1.80; 95% confidence interval, 1.00\u20133.24) but not markers of kidney function (hazard ratio, 1.86; 95% confidence interval, 1.03\u20133.35) slightly attenuated this association. The\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              high\u2010risk genotypes were not significantly associated with other clinical\n              <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CVD<\/jats:styled-content>\n              outcomes.\n            <\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec xml:lang=\"en\">\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p xml:lang=\"en\">\n              Among blacks without baseline\n              <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CVD<\/jats:styled-content>\n              , the\n              <jats:italic>\n                <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">APOL<\/jats:styled-content>\n                1\n              <\/jats:italic>\n              high\u2010risk variants may be associated with increased risk for incident heart failure but not subclinical\n            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