Social and clinically-relevant cardiovascular risk factors in Asian Americans adults: NHANES 2011–2014

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue , 2017, Pages 222-227

  Echeverria, Sandra E ^a   Mustafa, Mehnaz ^b   Pentakota, Sri Ram ^c   Kim, Soyeon ^d   Hastings, Katherine G ^e   Amadi, Chioma ^a   Palaniappan, Latha ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Americans; Cardiovascular risk factors; Disparities; Nativity; Socioeconomic position

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RACE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ASIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; ASIAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85015071390     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.02.016     Document Type: Article

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