The relation between health literacy, hypertension knowledge, and blood pressure among middle-aged Japanese adults

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 224-230

  Shibuya, Akiko ^a,b   Inoue, Ryusuke ^c   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^b,e   Takeda, Yumiko ^d   Teshima, Takeo ^d   Imai, Yutaka ^b   Kondo, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d FUKUJUJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

blood pressure; health literacy; hypertension knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY;

EID: 80052971583     PISSN: 13595237     EISSN: 14735725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MBP.0b013e32834af7ba     Document Type: Article

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