Hypertension and its related factors in taiwanese elderly people

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-94

  Lai, Shih Wei ^a   Li, Tsai Chung ^b   Lin, Cheng Chieh ^a   Tan, Chee Keong ^a   Ng, Kim Choy ^a   Lai, Ming May ^a   Liu, Chiu Shong ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 0035020309     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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