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OBJECTIVES:This study examines the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and chronic disease burden among African Americans compared to Caucasians in a population of higher socioeconomic status. DESIGN:The current study is a cross-sectional, secondary data analysis of the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. SETTING:Patients with a medical examination from 1970-2010 at the Cooper Clinic. PARTICIPANTS:762 African Americans and 40,051 Caucasians who met the criteria. OUTCOME MEASURES:Racial differences in cardiovascular risk factors/burden of disease between African Americans and Caucasians. RESULTS:African Americans had higher prevalence of evaluated cardiovascular risk factors than did Caucasians after controlling for obesity, tobacco use, and physical fitness. Caucasians had greater likelihood of no risk factors while African Americans were more likely to have all three risk factors. Race was typically predictive of cardiovascular risk factors in African Americans compared to Caucasians. CONCLUSIONS:Findings suggest that health differences persist despite greater socioeconomic status, and further investigations of biopsychosocial causes are warranted.
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Ethn Disjournal_title
Ethnicity & diseaseauthors
Frierson GM,Howard EN,DeFina LE,Powell-Wiley TM,Willis BLsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-01-01 00:00:00pages
35-42issue
1eissn
1049-510Xissn
1945-0826journal_volume
23pub_type
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：Objective:This article describes Mayors Mentoring Mayors (3M), an initiative of the Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention (ArCOP), which expanded to five states to become the signature community initiative of the Mid-South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center (Mid-South TCC) for Health Disparities Research. Meth...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
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更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.2.251
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.4.603
更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：
更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.S2.735
更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.29.S1.123
更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.26.3.395
更新日期：2016-07-21 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
