TY - GEN AU - Commodore-Mensah,Yvonne AU - Hill,Martha AU - Allen,Jerilyn AU - Cooper,Lisa A AU - Blumenthal,Roger AU - Agyemang,Charles AU - Himmelfarb,Cheryl Dennison TI - Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Disease Risk of Ghanaian- and Nigerian-Born West African Immigrants in the United States: The Afro-Cardiac Study SN - 2047-9980 PY - 2016///1213 KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Black People KW - Blood Glucose KW - analysis KW - Body Mass Index KW - Cardiovascular Diseases KW - diagnosis KW - Chi-Square Distribution KW - Comorbidity KW - Cross-Sectional Studies KW - Diabetes Mellitus KW - Emigrants and Immigrants KW - Emigration and Immigration KW - Employment KW - Female KW - Ghana KW - ethnology KW - Health Status KW - Humans KW - Insurance, Health KW - Life Style KW - Logistic Models KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Nigeria KW - Obesity KW - Odds Ratio KW - Prevalence KW - Protective Factors KW - Risk Assessment KW - Risk Factors KW - Sedentary Behavior KW - Smoking KW - adverse effects KW - Social Support KW - Time Factors KW - United States KW - epidemiology KW - Black or African American N1 - Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural UR - https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.115.002385 ER -