Coronary Disease Mortality and Risk Factors in Black and White Men: Results From the Combined Charleston, SC, and Evans County, Georgia, Heart Studies

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 14, 1995, Pages 1521-1527

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

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Evans County Heart Study ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BLACKS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY DISEASE; GEORGIA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; WHITES;

EID: 0029045295     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1995.00430140094010     Document Type: Article

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