Racial/ethnic and age differences in women's awareness of heart disease

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 476-480

  Mochari Greenberger, Heidi ^a   Miller, Kerri L ^b   Mosca, Lori ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b Harris Interactive   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DEATH; DYSPNEA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART DISEASES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862172239     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2011.3428     Document Type: Article

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