Access to Care, Acculturation, and Risk Factors for Stroke in Mexican Americans: The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) Project

Stroke

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2671-2675

  Smith, Melinda A ^a   Risser, Jan M H ^b   Lisabeth, Lynda D ^a   Moyé, Lemuel A ^b   Morgenstern, Lewis B ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Health services accessibility; Hispanic Americans; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; STROKE;

ACCULTURATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TEXAS;

EID: 0242694062     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000096459.62826.1F     Document Type: Article

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