Racial and ethnic differences in blood pressure: Biology and sociology

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 2757-2759

  Jones, Daniel W ^a,b   Hall, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Editorials; Hypertension; Obesity; Stress

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33845893874     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.668731     Document Type: Editorial

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