Prevalence of arterial hypertension in the adult population in rural and urban China: The Beijing eye study

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1117-1123

  Xu, Liang ^a   Wang, Shuang ^a   Wang, Ya X ^a   Wang, Yun S ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CHINA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 52449127677     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2008.247     Document Type: Article

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