Open AccessLower hypertension risk in Mexico City than in San Antonio
Author(s) -
Carles LorenzoBosquet,
Kenneth Williams,
C. Gonzalez-Villalpando,
Martin Stern,
Helen P. Hazuda,
S.M. Haffner
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1941-7225
pISSN - 0895-7061
DOI - 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2004.10.022
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , demography , poisson regression , diabetes mellitus , mexico city , obesity , population , confidence interval , relative risk , ethnic group , gerontology , environmental health , endocrinology , humanities , philosophy , sociology , anthropology
We examined the effects of blood pressure (BP), weight, and weight gain on hypertension risk in two similar ethnic origin populations, subjects in Mexico City and Mexican Americans in San Antonio.
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