Ethnicity: New Challenge for Cardiovascular Prevention in Europe

Hypertension

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 464-465

  Modesti, Pietro A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MIGRANT; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH ASIAN; UNITED KINGDOM; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; STROKE;

EID: 84939231220     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.05777     Document Type: Editorial

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