Differences in rates of obstructive lung disease between Africans and African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Gathuru, Irene M ^a   Bunker, Clareann H ^a   Ukoli, Flora A ^b   Egbagbe, Eruke E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Africa; Blacks; Obstructive lung disease; Respiratory symptoms; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NIGERIA; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW RATES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0036764254     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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