Excess Cardiovascular Risk Burden in Jamaican Women Does Not Influence Predicted 10-Year CVD Risk Profiles of Jamaica Adults: An Analysis of the 2007/08 Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tulloch Reid, Marshall K ^a   Younger, Novie O ^a   Ferguson, Trevor S ^a   Francis, Damian K ^a   Abdulkadri, Abdullahi O ^b   Gordon Strachan, Georgiana M ^b   McFarlane, Shelly R ^a   Cunningham Myrie, Colette A ^b   Wilks, Rainford J ^a   Anderson, Simon G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; JAMAICAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMPLICATION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; JAMAICA; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; JAMAICA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84879256478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066625     Document Type: Article

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