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Coronary heart disease and risk factors in Black South Africans: a case-control study.

Ethnicity & disease - 1 Jan 2006

Loock Magriet, Steyn Krisela, Becker Piet, Fourie Jean

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BACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease (CHD) was uncommon in Black people living in Africa before 1970. Since then CHD risk factor levels have increased, while CHD rates have remained low. OBJECTIVE: This case-control study aims to assess the relationship between CHD and known risk factors in urban Black South Africans. METHODS: Eighty-nine cases with CHD and 356 controls attending the Kalafong hospital were...

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