Stroke mortality disparities in the population of the appalachian mountain region

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 286-291

  Sergeev, Alexander V ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African americans; Appalachian mountain population; Blacks; Health status disparities; Mortality; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPALACHIAN REGION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RURAL POPULATION; STROKE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84884370163     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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