Black-white differences in age trajectories of hypertension prevalence among adult women and men, 1999-2002

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-48

  Geronimus, Arline T ^a   Bound, John ^a   Keene, Danya ^a   Hicken, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Life course; Obesity; Poverty; Racial disparities; Stress; Weathering; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY SEX; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; LIFESPAN; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; POVERTY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY;

EID: 33846933334     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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