Blood pressure levels in Xavánte adults from the Pimentel Barbosa Indian reservation, mato grosso, Brazil

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 232-240

  Coimbra Jr , Carlos E A ^a,c   Chor, Dora ^b   Santos, Ricardo V ^a,c   Salzano, Francisco M ^d  

^a ENSP Fiocruz   (Brazil)

^b Depto Epidemiol e Metodos Quantit   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Blood Pressure; Epidemiology; Hypertension; Social Change; South American Indians

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAZIL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAZIL; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0035293689     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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