Blood pressure demographics: Nature or nurture ... ... genes or environment?

BMC Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tomson, Joseph ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG MECHANISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; NEGRO; NOTE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 13844275681     PISSN: 17417015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-3-3     Document Type: Article

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