Subclinical hypertensive heart disease in black patients with elevated blood pressure in an inner-city emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 467-474

  Levy, Phillip ^a   Ye, Hong ^b   Compton, Scott ^c   Zalenski, Robert ^a   Byrnes, Timothy ^a   Flack, John M ^a   Welch, Robert ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBCLINICAL HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; URBAN AREA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE, DIASTOLIC; HEART FAILURE, SYSTOLIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84866740962     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.03.030     Document Type: Article

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