Educational health disparities in hypertension and diabetes mellitus among African descent populations in the Caribbean and the USA: a comparative analysis from the Spanish town cohort (Jamaica) and the Jackson heart study (USA)

BACKGROUND: Studies have suggested that social inequalities in chronic disease outcomes differ between industrialized and developing countries, but few have directly compared these effects. We explored inequalities in hypertension and diabetes prevalence between African-descent populations with diff...

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Autores principales: Bidulescu, Aurelian, Ferguson, Trevor S., Hambleton, Ian, Younger-Coleman, Novie, Francis, Damian, Bennett, Nadia, Griswold, Michael, Fox, Ervin, MacLeish, Marlene, Wilks, Rainford, Harris, E. Nigel, Sullivan, Louis W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28222733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0527-9

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