Probing racial and regional disparities in stroke mortality: Same problem, different solutions?

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 483-484

  Sanossian, Nerses ^a   Ovbiagele, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 57749106801     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.21550     Document Type: Editorial

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