Decreasing population blood pressure: 15 years of follow-up in the Copenhagen City Heart Study (CCHS)

Blood Pressure

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 176-182

  Andersen, Ulla Overgaard ^a,b   Jensen, Gorm ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Diastolic blood pressure; Epidemiology; Population; Risk factors; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING HABIT; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 3242807579     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08037050410015006     Document Type: Article

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