Racial/ethnic disparities in the awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension - United States, 2003-2010

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 351-355

  Valderrama, Amy L ^a   Gillespie, Cathleen ^a   Mercado, Carla ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877776646     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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