The Association of Skin Color With Blood Pressure in US Blacks With Low Socioeconomic Status

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 265, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 599-602

  Klag, Michael J ^a   Whelton, Paul K ^a   Coresh, Josef ^a   Grim, Clarence E ^b   Kuller, Lewis H ^c  

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

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SKIN COLOR; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

BLACKS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEGROID RACE; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0025971556     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1991.03460050053019     Document Type: Article

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