Socioeconomic status and health in blacks and whites: The problem of residual confounding and the resiliency of race

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 621-628

  Kaufman, Jay S ^a,b   Cooper, Richard S ^a   McGee, Daniel L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Epidemiologic methods; Race; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030801747     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199710000-00002     Document Type: Article

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