Specifying race-ethnic differences in risk for psychiatric disorder in a USA national sample

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-68

  Breslau, Joshua ^a   Aguilar Gaxiola, Sergio ^b   Kendler, Kenneth S ^c   Su, Maxwell ^a   Williams, David ^d   Kessler, Ronald C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTHYMIA; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MINORITY GROUP; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PANIC; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29244442605     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291705006161     Document Type: Article

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