Ethnic variations in quality of life and depressive symptoms among black Americans with acute decompensated heart failure

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 985-991

  Sharma, Vibhu ^a   Zehtabchi, Shahriar ^b   Rojas, Nereida ^a   Birkhahn, Robert ^c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Depression; Heart; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350648650     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-9684(15)31064-6     Document Type: Article

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