Differences in cause-specific mortality between Latino and white adults

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1058-1062

  Wong, Mitchell D ^a   Tagawa, Tomoko ^b   Hsieh, Hsin Ju ^c   Shapiro, Martin F ^a   John Boscardin, W ^c   Ettner, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; HIV; Latino; Life expectancy; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 26844491374     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000178196.14532.40     Document Type: Article

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