Comparison of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Mortality in Black and White Adults | Zendy

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Comparison of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Mortality in Black and White Adults

Author(s) -

Mercedes R. Carnethon,

Elizabeth B. Lynch,

Alan R. Dyer,

Donald M. LloydJones,

Renwei Wang,

Daniel B. Garside,

Philip Greenland

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.11.1196

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , body mass index , myocardial infarction , blood pressure , confidence interval , diabetes mellitus , negroid , demography , epidemiology , endocrinology , sociology

Recent attention to racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes highlights the excess coronary heart disease mortality in black patients compared with white patients. We investigated whether traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors were similarly associated with CVD mortality in black and white men and women.

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