Racial/ethnic disparities in risk of early childhood mortality among children with congenital heart defects

Pediatrics

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Nembhard, Wendy N ^a   Salemi, Jason L ^a   Ethen, Mary K ^b   Fixler, David E ^c   DiMaggio, Angela ^a   Canfield, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Congenital heart defects; Mortality; Race ethnicity; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955504907     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-2702     Document Type: Article

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