Is there a difference in hypertensive claim rates among medicaid recipients?

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-26

  Sung, John F C ^a   Harris Hooker, Sandra ^a   Alema Mensah, Ernest ^a   Mayberry, Robert ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benign hypertension; Hypertension; Incidence; Malignant hypertension; Medicaid; Prevalence; Race; Rural; Unspecified hypertension; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION, MALIGNANT; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031463209     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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