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Race-ethnic disparities in the impact of stroke risk factors: the northern Manhattan stroke study.
Stroke - 1 Aug 2001
Sacco R L, Boden-Albala B, Abel G, Lin I F, Elkind M, Hauser W A, Paik M C, Shea S
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Stroke risk factors have been determined in large part through epidemiological studies in white cohorts; as a result, race-ethnic disparities in stroke incidence and mortality rates remained unexplained. The aim in the present study was to compare the prevalence, OR, and etiological fraction (EF) of stroke risk factors among white, blacks, and Caribbean Hispanics living in the same urban...
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