Skin color and mortality risk among men: the Puerto Rico Heart Health Program.
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Summary
It is suggested that skin color may be capturing environmental dynamics that may influence mortality risk among Puerto Rican men and the association between skin color and all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-related mortality risk before and after adjusting for selected characteristics and risk factors.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2007-05-01
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 42
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1972621203
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:42989562
Keywords
Medicine, Demography, Mortality rate, Incidence (geometry), Confidence interval
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- Color disparities in cognitive aging among Puerto Ricans on the archipelago
- Validity of self‐reported skin color by using skin color evaluation scale
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