Patterns and predictors of prehypertension among "healthy" urban adults in India

Angiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 557-563

  Chockalingam, Anand ^a,b   Ganesan, N ^a,b   Venkatesan, S ^a,b   Gnanavelu, G ^a,b   Subramaniam, T ^a,b   Jaganathan, V ^a,b   Elangovan, S ^a,b   Alagesan, R ^a,b   Dorairajan, Smrita ^a,b   Subramaniam, Ashwin ^a,b   Rafeeq, K ^a,b   Elangovan, C ^a,b   Rajendran, V ^a,b  

^a Madras Medical College and Research Institute ^*

^b MADRAS MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIETARY INTAKE; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INDIA; LIFESTYLE AND RELATED PHENOMENA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREHYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WORK;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 25644443117     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970505600506     Document Type: Article

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