Individual and neighborhood social factors of hypertension management in a low-socioeconomic status population: A community-based case-control study in Singapore

Hypertension Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 295-303

  Wee, Liang En ^a   Koh, Gerald Choon Huat ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

awareness; control; low socioeconomic status; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; SCREENING; SCREENING TEST; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AWARENESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84857939373     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2011.187     Document Type: Article

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