Coronary heart disease risk factors among Cuban Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 607-614

  Nath, Subrata D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuban Americans; Heart disease; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORONARY RISK; CUBA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CORONARY DISEASE; CUBA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27844461080     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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