Using Decomposition Analysis to Identify Modifiable Racial Disparities in the Distribution of Blood Pressure in the United States

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 345-353

  Basu, Sanjay ^a,b,c   Hong, Anthony ^d   Siddiqi, Arjumand ^d,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e IL   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; hypertension; population studies; statistical methods

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH RISK; HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACIAL DISPARITY; RESEARCH SUBJECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOBACCO USE; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; COMORBIDITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HARM REDUCTION; MINORITY HEALTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SODIUM INTAKE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

SODIUM INTAKE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MINORITY HEALTH; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SODIUM, DIETARY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940188267     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwv079     Document Type: Article

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