Blood Pressure Concordance in Older Married Mexican-American Couples

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1655-1659

  Peek, M Kristen ^a,b   Markides, Kyriakos S ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure concordance; Marriage and health

Indexed keywords

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; SPOUSES; TEXAS;

EID: 0242491748     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51520.x     Document Type: Review

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