The accelerating epidemic of hypertension among rural Chinese women: Results from Liaoning province

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 784-788

  Sun, Zhaoqing ^a   Zheng, Liqiang ^a   Detrano, Robert ^b   Zhang, Dayi ^c   Zhang, Xingang ^a   Xu, Changlu ^a   Li, Jue ^d   Liu, Shuangshuang ^a   Li, Jiajin ^a   Hu, Dayi ^d   Sun, Yingxian ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c General Hospital Attached to Fuxin Mining Group   (China)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISORDERS OF LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; EPIDEMIC; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SALT INTAKE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 46249112911     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2008.170     Document Type: Article

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