African Americans and women have the highest stroke mortality in Texas

Stroke

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-18

  Morgenstern, Lewis B ^a   Spears, William D ^b   Goff Jr , David C ^b   Grotta, James C ^a   Nichaman, Milton Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

blacks; epidemiology; Hispanic Americans; racial differences; women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031015881     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.28.1.15     Document Type: Article

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