Efficacy of a church-based intervention on cardiovascular risk reduction.

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Published in Ethn Dis on January 01, 2001

Authors

M J Oexmann1, R Ascanio, B M Egan

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pharmacology and Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA. lightenup@musc.edu

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