Hypertension in blacks;Hypertensie bij de negroide patient

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 229-234

  Timmers, G J ^a   Schouten, J A ^a   Ter Wee, P M ^a,b   Gans, R O B ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; INSULIN; RENIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; NEGRO; OBESITY; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PLASMA VOLUME; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DRUG COMBINATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; ONSET AGE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOMALIA; SURINAME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DIURETICS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; RISK FACTORS; SOMALIA; SURINAME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033616295     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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