Blood pressure and memory in older African Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 181-186

  Whitfield, Keith E ^a   Allaire, Jason C ^c   Gamaldo, Alyssa ^c   Aiken Morgan, Adrienne T ^d   Sims, Regina ^a   Edwards, Christopher ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Blood Pressure; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 47749107297     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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