Skin tone, hostility, and blood pressure in young normotensive African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 34-40

  Ernst, Frederick A ^a   Jackson, Inger ^a   Robertson, Rose Marie ^b   Nevels, Harold ^a   Watts, Eli ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Blood pressure; Hostility; Skin tone; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NEGRO; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MMPI; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031448736     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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