Heat Maps of Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus, and Smoking in the Continental United States

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Loop, Matthew Shane ^a   Howard, George ^a   De Los Campos, Gustavo ^b   Al Hamdan, Mohammad Z ^c   Safford, Monika M ^d   Levitan, Emily B ^a   McClure, Leslie A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Diabetes mellitus; Epidemiology; Hypertension; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85009945416     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.116.003350     Document Type: Article

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