Blood pressure among the Inuit (Eskimo) populations in the Arctic

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 92-99

  Bjerregaard, Peter ^a   Blanchet, Carole ^b   Dewailly, Eric ^c   Young, T Kue ^d   Hegele, Robert A ^e   Ebbesson, Sven E O ^f   Risica, Patricia M ^g   Mulvad, Gert ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f Alaska Siberia Medical Research Program   (United States)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Primary Health Clinic   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Alaska; blood pressure; Canada; Greenland; Inuit; obesity; smoking

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CANADA; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GREENLAND; HEALTH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GENDER; LIFESTYLE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALASKA; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0141836221     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14034940210133924     Document Type: Article

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