Obesity, hypertension, and vascular disease

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 140-144

  Sowers, Kurt M R ^a   Sowers, James R ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OBESITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0033108026     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: 15343111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-999-0009-6     Document Type: Article

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