Racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular medication use among older adults in the United States.

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Published in Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf on August 01, 2010

Authors

Dima M Qato1, Stacy Tessler Lindau, Rena M Conti, L Philip Schumm, G Caleb Alexander

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. dqato@babies.bsd.uchicago.edu

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