Racial/ethnic differences in hypertension and depression among us adult women

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 389-396

  Read, Jen'nan Ghazal ^a   Gorman, Bridget K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Hypertension; Race ethnicity; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447527548     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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