Racial and ethnic disparities associated with knowledge of symptoms of heart attack and use of 911: National health interview survey, 2001

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 192-197

  McGruder, Henraya F ^a,c   Greenlund, Kurt J ^a   Malarcher, Ann M ^a   Antoine, Theresa L ^b   Croft, Janet B ^a   Zheng, Zhi Jie ^a  

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

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Education; Emergency Medical Care; Heart Attack; Racial Differences; Warning Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNIC GROUP; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47749132365     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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