Hypertension knowledge among patients from an urban clinic

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-47

  Sanne, Shane ^a   Muntner, Paul ^a,b   Kawasaki, Lumie ^a   Hyre, Amanda ^b   Desalvo, Karen B ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

End stage renal disease; Hypertension; Knowledge; Minority; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; KIDNEY FAILURE; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HOSPITAL; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 47549109422     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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