Does blood pressure inevitably rise with age?: Longitudinal evidence among forager-horticulturalists

Hypertension

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-33

  Gurven, Michael ^a   Blackwell, Aaron D ^a   Rodríguez, Daniel Eid ^b   Stieglitz, Jonathan ^c   Kaplan, Hillard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Modernization; Tsimane

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET; FEMALE; FORAGER; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGING; AGRICULTURE; AMERICAN INDIAN; BOLIVIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AGRICULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BOLIVIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865828808     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.189100     Document Type: Article

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