The prevalence of hypertension in older Mexicans and Mexican Americans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-298

  Salinas, Jennifer J ^a,b   Eschbach, Karl A ^b   Markides, Kyriakos S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Emigration and immigration; Hypertension; Mexican americans

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55249084022     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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