Racial disparities in hypertension awareness and management: Are there differences among African Americans and Whites living under similar social conditions?

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 269-275

  Thorpe Jr , Roland J ^a   Bowie, Janice V ^a   Smolen, Jenny R ^a   Bell, Caryn N ^a   Jenkins Jr , Michael L ^a,b   Jackson, John ^c   LaVeist, Thomas A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Anne Arundel County Department of Health   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Hypertension awareness; Hypertension control; Hypertension treatment; Social environment

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BALTIMORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 84904022751     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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