Racial differences in the prevalence of hypertensive retinopathy

Hypertension

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1086-1091

  Wong, Tien Yin ^a   Klein, Ronald ^b   Duncan, Bruce B ^c   Nieto, F Javier ^d   Klein, Barbara E K ^b   Couper, David J ^e   Hubbard, Larry D ^b   Sharrett, A Richey ^f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Blood pressure; Hypertension, genetic; Microcirculation; Race; Retinopathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEREDITARY HYPERTENSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEGRO; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETINAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037658916     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000064181.63546.53     Document Type: Article

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