Ethnic differences in blood pressure: Findings from the Fletcher Challenge-Auckland University Heart and Health Study

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 1032, 1996, Pages 395-397

  Bullen, Christopher ^a   Tipene Leach, David ^a   Vander Hoorn, Stephen ^a   Jackson, Rod ^a,b   Norton, Robyn ^a,c   MacMahon, Stephen ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Epidemiology ^*

^c Injury Prevention Research Centre

^d Department of Medicine

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030601569     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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