A comparative analysis of risk factors for stroke in blacks and whites: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 601-616

  Huxley, Rachel R ^a   Bell, Elizabeth J ^a   Lutsey, Pamela L ^a   Bushnell, Cheryl ^b   Shahar, Eyal ^c   Rosamond, Wayne ^d   Gottesman, Rebecca ^e   Folsom, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

racial differences; risk factors; stroke

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; RACIAL DISPARITY; RISK FACTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLACK PERSON; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907576493     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2013.857765     Document Type: Article

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