Relationship between personality and self-measured blood pressure value at home: The Ohasama study

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 115-123

  Hozawa, Atsushi ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a   Tsuji, Ichiro ^a   Kikuya, Masahiro ^a   Matsubara, Mitsunobu ^b   Suzuki, Toshinobu ^a   Nagai, Kenichi ^b   Kitaoka, Hirofumi ^b   Arai, Yumiko ^c   Hosokawa, Toru ^d   Satoh, Hiroshi ^a   Hisamichi, Shigeru ^a   Imai, Yutaka ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural Miyako Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community based study; Extroversion; Home blood pressure measurement; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HOME; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EXAMINATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0036169072     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CEH-100108722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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