Geographic representation of the jackson heart study cohort to the African-American population in Jackson, Mississippi

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-117

  Hickson, Demarc A ^a,b   Waller, Lance A ^c   Gebreab, Samson Y ^d   Wyatt, Sharon B ^e   Kelly, James ^a   Antoine Lavigne, Donna ^a   Sarpong, Daniel F ^a  

^a JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Bayesian model; binomial model; epidemiologic methods; Gini coefficient; Lorenz curve; representation; topography, medical

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ETIOLOGY; GIS; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOFTWARE; TOPOGRAPHY;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GINI COEFFICIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LORENZ CURVE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSISSIPPI; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

JACKSON; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 78650471027     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq317     Document Type: Article

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