Prevalence of risk factors for coronary heart disease among dominicans in the Dominican Republic: Comparison with Japanese and Americans using existing data

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 238-243

  Aono, Hiroshi ^a   Ozawa, Hideki ^a   Bello, Mercedes Castro ^b   Ito, Morio ^a   Saito, Isao ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ctr of Gastroenterological Diseases   (Dominican Republic)

Author keywords

Community wide survey; Coronary heart disease; Cross sectional study; International comparison; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY CONSTITUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BODY CONSTITUTION; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37849186922     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.7.238     Document Type: Article

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