NHLBI Family Blood Pressure Program: Methodology and recruitment in the HyperGEN Network

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 389-400

  Williams, Roger R ^a   Rao, D C ^b   Ellison, R Curtis ^c   Arnett, Donna K ^d   Heiss, Gerardo ^e   Oberman, Albert ^f   Eckfeldt, John H ^g   Leppert, Mark F ^a   Province, Michael A ^b   Mockrin, Stephen C ^h   Hunt, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e IL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood Pressure; Consent; Epidemiology; Genetics; Pathophysiology; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033846231     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1047-2797(00)00063-6     Document Type: Article

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