The relationship of blood lead and dietary calcium to blood pressure in the normative aging study

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 528-536

  Proctor, Susan P ^a,b,f   Rotnitzky, Andrea ^a   Sparrow, David ^c   Weiss, Scott T ^d,e   Hu, Howard ^a,e  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Calcium; Dietary; Lead; Males

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CALCIUM INTAKE; CALORIC INTAKE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIUM, DIETARY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; LEAD; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029956923     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/25.3.528     Document Type: Article

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