Race, ethnicity, and heart disease: A challenge for cardiology for the 21st century

American Heart Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Rambihar, Vivian S ^a   Rambihar, Sherryn P ^b   Rambihar, Vanessa S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN; CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHINESE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

CARDIOLOGY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART DISEASES; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO;

EID: 71949114693     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.10.020     Document Type: Editorial

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