Mortality Rates and Risk Factors for Coronary Disease in Black as Compared with White Men and Women
New England Journal of MedicinePublished 8 July 1993
Julian Keil, Susan E. Sutherland, Rebecca G. Knapp, Daniel T. Lackland, Peter C. Gazes, Herman A. Tyroler
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The black:white mortality rate ratios were not statistically significant, and the major risk factors for mortality from coronary disease were similar in blacks and whites in the 30-year follow-up of the Charleston Heart Study.
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Although the rates of death from coronary disease were somewhat lower among black men than white men and higher among black women than white women, the black:white mortality rate ratios were not statistically significant, and the major risk factors for mortality from coronary disease were similar in blacks and whites in the 30-year follow-up of the Charleston Heart Study.
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