Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease: The Evans County Heart Study

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 311, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 130-134

  Hames, Curtis G ^a   Greenlund, Kurt J ^a   Berenson, Gerald S ^a  

^a Tulane Center for Cardiovascular Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Ethnicity; Incidence; Prevalence; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029928859     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-199603000-00004     Document Type: Article

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