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Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Risk of Ghanaian‐ and Nigerian‐Born West African Immigrants in the United States: The Afro‐Cardiac Study

BACKGROUND: The number of African immigrants in the United States grew 40‐fold between 1960 and 2007, from 35 355 to 1.4 million, with a large majority from West Africa. This study sought to examine the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and global CVD risk and to identify indep...

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Autores principales:	Commodore‐Mensah, Yvonne, Hill, Martha, Allen, Jerilyn, Cooper, Lisa A., Blumenthal, Roger, Agyemang, Charles, Himmelfarb, Cheryl Dennison
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
Materias:	Original Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26896477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.002385

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