White-black differences in cardiovascular malformations in infancy and socioeconomic factors

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 393-402

  Correa villaseñor, Adolfo ^a   Mccarter, Robert ^b   Downing, John ^c   Ferencz, Charlotte ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Congenital; Heart defects; Socioeconomic factors; Whites

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ATRESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; BALTIMORE; BLACKS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; WHITES;

EID: 0025948890     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116101     Document Type: Article

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