Racial disparities in cardiovascular health care: Unfulfilled exSPECTations?

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 626-629

  Williams, Kim Allan ^a   Pokharna, Hemlata K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART DISEASE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PHARMACY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034769372     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mnc.2001.118066     Document Type: Article

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