Differences between Israeli Jews and Arabs in morbidity and mortality rates for diseases potentially associated with dietary risk factors

Public Health Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-40

  Green, Manfred S ^a,b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PROTEIN; SATURATED FATTY ACID; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN;

ARAB; BREAST CANCER; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ISRAEL; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ARAB WORLD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; JEWS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031690076     PISSN: 03010422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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