The mortality profile of black Seventh-Day Adventists residing in metropolitan Atlanta: a pilot study. | Zendy

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The mortality profile of black Seventh-Day Adventists residing in metropolitan Atlanta: a pilot study.

Author(s) -

Foster Murphy,

Daniel S. Blumenthal,

J Dickson-Smith,

Ralph Peay

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.80.8.984

Subject(s) - atlanta , metropolitan area , medicine , demography , gerontology , seventh day adventist , population , environmental health , pathology , theology , philosophy , sociology

Mortality information was gathered for 110 Black Seventh-day Adventist members of seven churches in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia during the period 1980-87. Seventy-seven percent of the deaths were due to cardiovascular diseases; 8 percent due to cancer, the second leading cause of death. The cancer rate is extremely low in comparison to the proportion of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases. Subsequent research on this population will take into consideration lifestyle factors which could contribute to this finding.

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