Hypertension among hispanic elders of a Caribbean origin in Massachusetts

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 499-507

  Lin, Hai ^a   Bermudez, Odilia I ^a   Falcon, Luis M ^b   Tucker, Katherine L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominicans; Elderly; Ethnicity; Hispanic; Hypertension; Prevalence; Puerto Ricans; Systolic hypertension

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUERTO RICO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WEST INDIES;

EID: 0036763601     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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