Established risk factors account for most of the racial differences in cardiovascular disease mortality.

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Published in PLoS One on April 18, 2007

Authors

Sean O Henderson1, Christopher A Haiman, Lynne R Wilkens, Laurence N Kolonel, Peggy Wan, Malcolm C Pike

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. sohender@hsc.usc.edu

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