Racial/ethnic disparities in mortality related to congenital heart defects among children and adults in the United States

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 442-449

  Nembhard, Wendy N ^a   Pathak, Elizabeth B ^a   Schocken, Douglas D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Disparities; Epidemiology; Mortality; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849087952     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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