American Heart Journal
Volume 149, Issue 6 , Pages 1066-1073 , June 2005

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk factor burden among middle-aged women: Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

  • Karen A. Matthews, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Karen A. Matthews, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.
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  • Mary Fran Sowers, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Mich
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  • Carol A. Derby, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology and Epidemiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
    • ,
  • Evan Stein, MBBCH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • CEO, Medical Research Laboratories, Highland Heights, Ky
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  • Heidi Miracle-McMahill, MPH, MS

      Affiliations

    • Independent consultant, Arlington, Mass
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  • Sybil L. Crawford, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass
    • ,
  • Richard C. Pasternak, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass

Received 21 October 2003 ,Accepted 17 August 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2004.08.027

American Heart Journal
Volume 149, Issue 6 , Pages 1066-1073 , June 2005

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