Ethnicity and the first diagnosis of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases: Associations in a linked electronic health record cohort of 1 million patients.

While the association of ethnic group with individual cardiovascular diseases has been studied, little is known about ethnic differences in the initial lifetime presentation of clinical cardiovascular disease in contemporary populations.We studied 1,068,318 people, aged ≥30 years and free from diagn...

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Main Authors: Julie George, Rohini Mathur, Anoop Dinesh Shah, Mar Pujades-Rodriguez, Spiros Denaxas, Liam Smeeth, Adam Timmis, Harry Hemingway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5466321?pdf=render