Coronary heart disease and its risk factors in first-generation immigrant Asian Indians to the United States of America

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 343-353

  Enas, Enas A ^b   Garg, Abhimanyu ^a   Davidson, Michael A ^b   Nair, Vinod M ^b   Huet, Beverley A ^b   Yusuf, Salim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030184408     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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