Urbanisation and coronary heart disease mortality among African Americans in the US South

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 252-257

  Barnett, Elizabeth ^a   Strogatz, David ^b   Armstrong, Donna ^c   Wing, Steve ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY RISK; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CORONARY HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY RATE; URBANISATION;

USA, (SOUTH);

EID: 0029662375     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.50.3.252     Document Type: Article

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