High prevalence rates of diabetes and hypertension among refugee psychiatric patients

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-112

  Kinzie, John David ^a,b   Riley, Crystal ^a   McFarland, Bentson ^a   Hayes, Meg ^a   Boehnlein, James ^a   Leung, Paul ^a   Adams, Greg ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UHN 80 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Hypertension; Refugees; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REFERENCE VALUES; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39149126683     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318162aa51     Document Type: Article

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