Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among Black Surinamese, South Asian Surinamese and White Dutch in Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The SUNSET study

Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1971-1977

  Agyemang, Charles ^a,b   Bindraban, Navin ^a,c   Mairuhu, Gideon ^c   Van Montfrans, Gert ^c   Koopmans, Richard ^c   Stronks, Karien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness; Control; Ethnicity; Prevalence; The Netherlands; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 29244450831     PISSN: 02636352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hjh.0000186835.63996.d4     Document Type: Article

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