TY - JOUR T1 - Coronary heart disease in African Americans: primary and secondary prevention JF - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine JO - Cleve Clin J Med SP - 285 LP - 292 VL - 62 IS - 5 AU - Luther T. Clark AU - Obinnaya Emerole Y1 - 1995/09/01 UR - http://www.ccjm.org/content/62/5/285.abstract N2 - SUMMARY Coronary heart disease develops sooner in African Americans than in whites and causes a higher rate of mortality. Because multiple risk factors and risk factor clustering are common, efforts at primary and secondary prevention in this population need to address the total risk-factor profile. ER -