Heart Matters: Gender and Racial Differences Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Control Among Veterans

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 477-483

  Goldstein, Karen M ^a,b   Melnyk, S Dee ^a,c   Zullig, Leah L ^a,d   Stechuchak, Karen M ^a   Oddone, Eugene ^a,b   Bastian, Lori A ^e,f   Rakley, Susan ^a   Olsen, Maren K ^a,b   Bosworth, Hayden B ^a,b  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VETERAN; AGE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUCASIAN; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 84908030845     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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