Awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia and area-level mortality regions in the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 903-921

  Shuaib, Faisal M ^a   Durant, Raegan W ^a,b   Parmar, Gaurav ^a   Brown, Todd M ^a   Roth, David L ^a   Hovater, Martha ^a   Halanych, Jewell H ^a   Shikany, James M ^a   Howard, George ^a   Safford, Monika M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; HPSA; Ischemia; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RACE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860437299     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0045     Document Type: Article

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