Racial and ethnic differences in premature heart disease deaths in New Mexico: What is the role of diabetes?

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-88

  Krapfl, Heidi R ^a   Gohdes, Dorothy M ^a   Croft, Janet B ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Heart disease; New Mexico; Premature mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEXICO; MORTALITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; ETHNIC GROUP; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; DATABASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW MEXICO;

EID: 33744975488     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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