Association between neighborhood disadvantage and hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in older adults: Results from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1181-1188

  Buys, David R ^a   Howard, Virginia J ^b   McClure, Leslie A ^b   Buys, Katie Crawford ^c   Sawyer, Patricia ^a   Allman, Richard M ^a   Levitan, Emily B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ALABAMA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84929353349     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302048     Document Type: Article

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