Open AccessSick Populations and Sick Subpopulations
Author(s) -
Yuan Lu,
Majid Ezzati,
Eric B. Rimm,
Kaveh Hajifathalian,
Peter Ueda,
Goodarz Danaei
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.115.018102
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , confidence interval , national health and nutrition examination survey , population , psychological intervention , epidemiology , gerontology , environmental health , psychiatry , sociology
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) death rates are much higher in blacks than whites in the United States. It is unclear how CVD risk and events are distributed among blacks versus whites and how interventions reduce racial disparities.
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