Cardiovascular risk factor variation within a hispanic cohort: SWAN, the study of women's health across the nation

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 396-402

  Derby, Carol A ^a   Wildman, Rachel P ^a   McGinn, Aileen P ^a   Green, Robin R ^a   Polotsky, Alex J ^a   Ram, Kavitha T ^a   Barnhart, Janice ^a   Weiss, Gerson ^b   Santoro, Nanette ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Cardiovascular risk factors; Hispanics; Women

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CUBA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AMERICA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CUBA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AMERICA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 79952665795     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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