Racial disparities in blood pressure control and treatment differences in a medicaid population, North Carolina, 2005-2006

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Downie, Diane L ^a,b   Schmid, Dorothee ^b   Plescia, Marcus G ^b   Huston, Sara L ^b,c   Bostrom, Susan ^b   Yow, Angie ^b   Lawrence, William W ^b   DuBard, C Annette ^b,c  

^a WISCONSIN DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051944805     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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