Mortality Rates and Risk Factors for Coronary Disease in Black as Compared with White Men and Women

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 73-78

  Keil, Julian E ^a   Sutherland, Susan E ^a   Knapp, Rebecca G ^a   Lackland, Daniel T ^a   Gazes, Peter C ^a   Tyroler, Herman A ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AMERICAS; CAUSES OF DEATH; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; DISEASES; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEART DISEASES; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CAUCASOID RACE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEGROID RACE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0027173396     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199307083290201     Document Type: Article

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