Coronary artery disease and risk factors in black South Africans - A comparative study

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 515-519

  Nethononda, M R ^a   Essop, M R ^a   Mbewu, A D ^c   Galpin, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africans; Cholesterol; Coronary artery disease; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEGRO; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CORONARY DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 7444253997     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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