Stress-related racial discrimination and hypertension likelihood in a population-based sample of African Americans: The Metro Atlanta Heart Disease Study

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 585-593

  Davis, Sharon K ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Quarells, Rakale Collins ^a   Din Dzietham, Rebecca ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Blacks; Ethnicity; High blood pressure; Hypertension; Minority health; Prejudice; Race; Racial discrimination; Racism; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREJUDICE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYSTOLE;

EID: 27844533043     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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