The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 9 , Pages 811-818 , September 2010

Higher Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence and Mortality among Younger Blacks Compared to Whites

  • Stacey Jolly, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to Stacey Jolly, MD, Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute, 9500 Euclid Avenue/G10, Cleveland, OH 44195
    • ,
  • Eric Vittinghoff, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco
    • ,
  • Arpita Chattopadhyay, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
    • ,
  • Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco
    • Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco

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 Funding: Faculty Development in Primary Care-D55HP05165 grant (SJ) and the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award (KBD). There was no pharmaceutical or industry funding for this manuscript.

 Conflict of Interest: None of the authors have any conflicts of interest to disclose related to this manuscript.

 Authorship: All authors had access to the data and a role in writing the manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(10)00391-8

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.04.020

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 9 , Pages 811-818 , September 2010

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