Effects of cigarette smoking, diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension on all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality in Mexican Americans: The San Antonio heart study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1058-1065

  Wei, Ming ^a   Mitchell, Braxton D ^b   Haffner, Steven M ^a   Stern, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular diseases; cohort studies; Mexican Americans; mortality; risk factors; whites

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0029811294     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008878     Document Type: Article

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