Peer Reviewed: Comparing Self-reported Disease Outcomes Diet and Lifestyles in a National Cohort of Black and White Seventh-day Adventists

摘要

IntroductionFew epidemiologic cohort studies on the etiology of chronic disease are powerful enough to distinguish racial and ethnic determinants from socioeconomic determinants of health behaviors and observed disease patterns. The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2), with its large number of respondents and the variation in lifestyles of its target populations, promises to shed light on these issues. This paper focuses on some preliminary baseline analyses of responses from the first group of participants recruited for AHS-2.