Does Racial Variation in Risk Factors Explain Black-White Differences in the Incidence of Hypertensive End-Stage Renal Disease?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 1991, Pages 1359-1364

  Whittle, Jeffrey C ^a   Whelton, Paul K ^a   Seidler, Alexander J ^a   Klag, Michael J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAUCASOID RACE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGE; NEGROID RACE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025767002     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1991.00400070121015     Document Type: Article

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