Exploring risk factors in Latino cardiovascular disease: The role of education, nativity, and gender

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1742-1750

  Dinwiddie, Gniesha Y ^a   Zambrana, Ruth E ^a   Garza, Mary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICAN; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; MORPHOMETRICS; NUTRITION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906084728     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301280     Document Type: Article

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