Frequency of attendance at religious services, hypertension, and blood pressure: The third national health and nutrition examination survey

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 382-385

  Gillum, R Frank ^a,b   Ingram, Deborah D ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Epidemiologic methods; Hypertension; Religion

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RELIGION;

EID: 33746081340     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000221253.90559.dd     Document Type: Article

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