Prevalence of hypertension in some cross-cultural populations of Visakhapatnam district, South India

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 250-259

  Kusuma, Yadlapalli S ^a   Babu, Bontha V ^b   Naidu, Jammigumpula M ^a  

^a ANDHRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b REGIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

Acculturization; Andhra pradesh; Blood pressure; Castes; Ethnicity; Hypertension; India; Modernization; Tribes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; INDIA; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 3242759204     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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