Racial/ethnic disparities in timing of death during childhood among children with congenital heart defects

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 628-640

  Nembhard, Wendy N ^a   Xu, Ping ^a   Ethen, Mary K ^b   Fixler, David E ^c   Salemi, Jason L ^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; Ethnicity; Infant; Mortality; Race; Survival

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHILDHOOD; CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS; ETHNICITY; INFANT; MORTALITY; RACE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

EID: 84885909130     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23169     Document Type: Article

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