Income, education, and blood pressure in adults in Jamaica, a middle-income developing country

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 400-408

  Mendez, Michelle A ^a   Cooper, Richard ^b   Wilks, Rainford ^c   Luke, Amy ^b   Forrester, Terrence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Developing countries; Education; Hypertension; Jamaica; Socioeconomic income

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

BLOOD; EDUCATION; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INDUSTRIALIZATION; JAMAICA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

JAMAICA;

EID: 0038643476     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyg083     Document Type: Article

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