Racial/ethnic variation in hypertension-related lifestyle behaviours among US women with self-reported hypertension

Journal of Human Hypertension

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 608-616

  Zhao, G ^a   Ford, E S ^a   Mokdad, A H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50449092513     PISSN: 09509240     EISSN: 14765527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhh.2008.52     Document Type: Article

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