Epidemiological issues are not simply black and white

Hypertension

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 546-547

  Frohlich, Edward D ^a  

^a OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBOHYDRATE INTOLERANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KELOID; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POTASSIUM INTAKE; PREHYPERTENSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM INTAKE; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PREHYPERTENSION;

EID: 80053565419     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.178541     Document Type: Note

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