Awareness about Factors that Affect the Management of Hypertension in Puerto Rican Patients

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 269-276

  Vergara, Cunegundo ^a,b   Martin, Autumn M ^d   Wang, Fei ^a,c   Horowitz, Sheryl ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d Hartford Hospital ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MARRIAGE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SODIUM INTAKE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; CONNECTICUT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PUERTO RICO; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342616718     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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