Issues in minority health: Atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease in African Americans

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 977-1001

  Clark, Luther T ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AWARENESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL CARE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23944468246     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2005.05.001     Document Type: Review

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