Association Between Length of Residence and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among an Ethnically Diverse Group of United States Immigrants
- 9 March 2007
- journal article
- populations at-risk
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 22 (6) , 841-846
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0163-y
Abstract
Although differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors between immigrants and nonimmigrants have been examined previously, the effect of acculturation on CVD risk factors in immigrants has been less well studied.Keywords
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