Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in multiple risk factors for heart disease and stroke in women: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2003

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1000-1008

  Hayes, Donald K ^a,b   Denny, C H ^a   Keenan, N L ^a   Croft, J B ^a   Sundaram, A A ^a   Greenlund, K J ^a  

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

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33847765463     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2006.15.1000     Document Type: Article

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