Social class and heart disease mortality among African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Barnett, Elizabeth ^a   Williams, Carol R ^a   Moore, Latetia ^a   Chen, Fangfei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart disease; Social class

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17144439569     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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