To elucidate the influence of ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) on women's cardiovascular health, using recently completed risk factor and mortality data from the Stanford Five-City Project.
DESIGN NARRATIVE:
Two data sets were used to evaluate the specific aims: (1) survey risk factor data (e.g., blood pressure, cholesterol, blood lipids, smoking, etc.) on over 4500 girls and women; and (2) surveillance mortality data on over 1800 women.
No eligibility criteria