Prevalence and patterns of hypertension in Peruvian Andean Hispanics: the PREVENCION study

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 216-225

  Medina Lezama, Josefina ^a   Zea Diaz, Humberto ^a   Morey Vargas, Oscar L ^a   Bolaños Salazar, Juan F ^a   Postigo MacDowall, Mauricio ^a   Paredes Díaz, Sheyla ^a   Corrales Medina, Fernando ^a   Valdivia Ascuña, Zoila ^a   Cuba Bustinza, Carolina ^a   Villalobos Tapia, Paola ^a   Muñoz Atahualpa, Edgar ^a   Chirinos Pacheco, Julio ^a   Raij, Leopoldo ^b   Chirinos, Julio A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE SANTA MARÍA   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Latin America; Peru; prevalence; risk factors; special populations

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEREDITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249111960     PISSN: 19331711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jash.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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