Racial/ethnic differences in stroke mortality in veterans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-165

  Ellis, Charles ^a,b   Zhao, Yumin ^a   Egede, Leonard E ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; Race ethnicity; Stroke; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SURVIVAL TIME; VETERAN; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VETERANS;

EID: 67651213954     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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