The mortality profile of black Seventh-Day Adventists residing in metropolitan Atlanta: a pilot study.
Mortality information was gathered for 110 Black Seventh-day Adventist members of seven churches in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia during the period 1980-87. Seventy-seven percent of the deaths were due to cardiovascular diseases; 8 percent due to cancer, the second leading cause of death. The cancer rate is extremely low in comparison to the proportion of deaths due to cardiovascular diseases. Subsequent research on this population will take into consideration lifestyle factors which could contribute to this finding.
Murphy
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Morehouse School of Medicine, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Blumenthal
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Dickson-Smith
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Peay
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D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D005845:Georgia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data