Cross-Sectional Markers of Stratification: Risk for Ambulatory Disability as per the Class, Race, and Sex (CSR) Hypothesis
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Risk for Ambulatory Disability as per the Class, Race, and Sex (CSR) Hypothesis Carlos Siordia1* & Hilario Molina II2 1 PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2 PhD, Department of Sociology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA Siordia was supported by grant numbers T32 AG000181 and U01 AG023744 from the National Institute of Aging at the National Institutes of Health [email protected]
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