Racial/ethnic disparities in all-cause mortality in U.S. adults: The effect of allostatic load

Public Health Reports

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 810-816

  Borrell, Luisa N ^a   Dallo, Florence J ^b   Nguyen, Norma ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOSTASIS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951545120     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491012500608     Document Type: Article

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