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Neighborhoods and Cardiovascular Risk: Beyond Individual-Level Risk Factors
(Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports, 2008)
Efforts to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease have traditionally focused on individual-level risk factors. However, recent work has highlighted the role of residential environments in shaping the distribution of ...
Density of recreational resources and physical activity in a sample of adults
(America Journal of Public Health, 2007-03)
Disability Transitions for Older Persons with Arthritis
(Sage Publications, 1992)
This article reports changes over 2 years in physical, activities of daily living (ADL), and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) disabilities for older U.S. adults with arthritis, compared to those without ...
Survival Curves, Prevalence Rates, and Dark Matters Therein
(Sage Publications, 1991)
Survival curves are a visual aid to help us think about interrelationships between chronic morbidity, disability, and mortality. Prevalence rates indicate a population's morbidity and disability status at given times. The ...
Neighborhood environments and coronary heart disease: a multilevel analysis
(American Journal of Epidemiology, 1997)
Racial differences in breast cancer survival in the Detroit Metropolitan area
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-05)
African American (AA) women have poorer breast cancer survival compared to Caucasian American (CA) women. The purpose of this analysis was to determine whether socioeconomic status (SES) and treatment differences influence ...
The production of a linear density gradient by means of a propertioning pump
(Elsevier, 1965-04)
Sex differences in complaints and diagnoses
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1980-12)
This paper examines male-female differences in complaints and diagnoses for ambulatory care visits. Data are from the 1975 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a national probability survey of visits to office-based ...