Decreasing Cardiovascular Disease and Increasing Cancer Among Whites in the United States From 1973 Through 1987: Good News and Bad News

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 271, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 431-437

  Davis, Devra Lee ^a   Dinse, Gregg E ^a   Hoel, David G ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

EID: 0028158166     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1994.03510300037035     Document Type: Article

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