Risk factors for hypertension in a population-based sample of postmenopausal women in Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 388-397

  Ganguli, Debdutta ^a   Das, Nilanjan ^a   Saha, Indranil ^a   Chaudhuri, Debnath ^b   Ghosh, Saurabh ^c   Dey, Sanjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (India)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

apolipoprotein B; hypertension; population based study; postmenopausal women; waist circumference; West Bengal

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION-BASED STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEST BENGAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

APOLIPOPROTEIN B; HYPERTENSION; POPULATION-BASED STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEST BENGAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOLIPOPROTEINS B; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84884559470     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539511420703     Document Type: Article

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