How does lower education get inside the body to raise blood pressure?: What can we do to prevent this?

Hypertension

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 617-618

  Williams, Redford B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEART RATE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77149179765     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.109.146423     Document Type: Note

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