Ethnic disparities in risk factors for stroke: What are the implications?

Stroke

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1568-1569

  Feigin, Valery L ^a   Rodgers, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; SURVIVAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 3042692749     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000133712.98448.1f     Document Type: Note

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