Educational health disparities in hypertension and diabetes mellitus among African descent populations in the Caribbean and the USA: a comparative analysis from the Spanish town cohort (Jamaica) and the Jackson heart study (USA)

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Aurelian Bidulescu
Trevor S. Ferguson
Ian Hambleton
Novie Younger-Coleman
Damian Francis
Nadia Bennett
Michael Griswold
Ervin Fox
Marlene MacLeish
Rainford Wilks
E. Nigel Harris
Louis W. Sullivan
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[1] Indiana University School of Public Health – Bloomington,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
[2] The University of the West Indies,Epidemiology Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute
[3] The University of the West Indies,Chronic Disease Research Centre, Tropical Medicine Research Institute
[4] University of Mississippi Medical Center,Center of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
[5] University of Mississippi Medical Center,Department of Medical Education
[6] Morehouse School of Medicine,undefined
[7] The University of the West Indies,undefined
[8] The Sullivan Alliance,undefined
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International Journal for Equity in Health | / 16卷
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Hypertension; Diabetes; Education; Health disparities; Social determinants; Jamaica; Jackson Heart Study; Blacks; African Americans; Afro-Caribbean;
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