Use of remotely sensed data to evaluate the relationship between living environment and blood pressure

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1832-1838

  Estes Jr , Maurice G ^a   Al Hamdan, Mohammad Z ^a   Crosson, William ^a   Estes, Sue M ^a   Quattrochi, Dale ^b   Kent, Shia ^c   McClure, Leslie Ain ^c  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Living environment; Remote sensing; Urban

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SUBURBAN AREA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 75349095073     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900871     Document Type: Article

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