African Americans and Heart Disease

Health and Social Work

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 247-249

  Guy Walls, Patricia ^a   Long, Jody G ^a  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ETHNOLOGY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 85034866338     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: 15456854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/hlx033     Document Type: Note

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