Frequency of attendance at religious services, cardiovascular disease, metabolic risk factors and dietary intake in Americans: An age-stratified exploratory analysis

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 435-448

  Obisesan, Thomas ^a   Livingston, Ivor ^b   Trulear, Harold Dean ^b   Gillum, Frank ^c  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c School of Divinity ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Dietary intake in Americans; Metabolic risk factors

Indexed keywords

FAT; LIPID;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; ENERGY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NULL HYPOTHESIS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRATIFICATION; STROKE; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD; BRAIN INFARCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET RECORDS; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS;

EID: 34250380710     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/9W22-00H1-362K-0279     Document Type: Article

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