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Excess Cardiovascular Risk Burden in Jamaican Women Does Not Influence Predicted 10-Year CVD Risk Profiles of Jamaica Adults: An Analysis of the 2007/08 Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey

BACKGROUND: Black Caribbean women have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors than their male counterparts. Whether this results in a difference in incident cardiovascular events is unknown. The aim of this study was to estimate the 10 year World Health Organization/Internation...

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Autores principales: Tulloch-Reid, Marshall K., Younger, Novie O., Ferguson, Trevor S., Francis, Damian K., Abdulkadri, Abdullahi O., Gordon-Strachan, Georgiana M., McFarlane, Shelly R., Cunningham-Myrie, Colette A., Wilks, Rainford J., Anderson, Simon G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23805252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066625