Elevated blood pressure in urban emergency department patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 835-843

  Karras, David J ^a   Ufberg, Jacob W ^a   Heilpern, Katherine L ^b   Cienki, John J ^c   Chiang, William K ^d   Wald, Marlena M ^b   Harrigan, Richard A ^a   Wald, David A ^a   Shayne, Philip ^b   Gaughan, John ^a   Kruus, Linda K ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Emergency department; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23944448912     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.04.015     Document Type: Article

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