Educating and mobilizing youth to detect undiagnosed elevated blood pressure: Searching for the silent killer

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 84-88

  Ovbiagele, Bruce ^a,e   Hutchison, Patti ^b   Handschumacher, Linda ^b   Coleman, Andrea ^b   Gutierrez, Marilou ^b   Yellin Mednick, Stephanie ^b   Beanes, Sylvia ^c   Cooper, Elizabeth M ^c   Pratt, Franklin D ^d  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Los Angeles Unified School District Nursing Services   (United States)

^c AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d Los Angeles County Fire Department   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; High school students; Hypertension; Outreach; Screening

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SCREENING; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; ETHNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOS ANGELES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; STUDENTS;

EID: 47549089303     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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