Black-white blood pressure disparities: Depressive symptoms and differential vulnerability to blood lead

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 205-209

  Hicken, Margaret T ^a   Gee, Gilbert C ^b   Connell, Cathleen ^c   Snow, Rachel C ^c   Morenoff, Jeffrey ^a   Hu, Howard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Health Behavior and Health Education ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

African americans; Depressive symptoms; Health status disparities; Hypertension; Lead; Psychosocial stress

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOCRIT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; LEAD; NUTRITION SURVEYS;

EID: 84873383701     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104517     Document Type: Note

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