Foreign-born blacks no different from whites for odds of stroke

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 786-793

  Wirth, Lorinette S ^a   Tobo, Betelihem B ^b   Hinyard, Leslie ^a   Vaughn, Michael G ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENT POPULATION; STROKE;

AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA; AGED; CARIBBEAN; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; AGED; CARIBBEAN REGION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

EID: 85024408191     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2016-208125     Document Type: Article

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