Comparative levels and time trends in blood pressure, total cholesterol, Body Mass Index and smoking among Caucasian and South-Asian participants of a UK primary-care based cardiovascular risk factor screening programme

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lyratzopoulos, Georgios ^a   McElduff, Patrick ^b   Heller, Richard F ^c   Hanily, Margaret ^d   Lewis, Philip S ^d  

^a Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority   (United Kingdom)

^b HUNTER NEW ENGLAND POPULATION HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SMOKING; SOUTH ASIA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; ADULT; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 29244481544     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-125     Document Type: Article

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