Prevalence of Masked Hypertension and Its Association With Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans: Results From the Jackson Heart Study

Prevalence of Masked Hypertension and Its Association With Subclinical Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans: Results From the Jackson Heart Study

BackgroundStudies consisting mostly of whites have shown that the prevalence of masked hypertension differs by prehypertension status. Using data from the Jackson Heart Study, an exclusively African American population‐based cohort, we evaluated the association of masked hypertension and prehyperten...

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Main Authors: Nicole Redmond, John N. Booth, Rikki M. Tanner, Keith M. Diaz, Marwah Abdalla, Mario Sims, Paul Muntner, Daichi Shimbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
blood pressure
cardiovascular diseases
epidemiology
hypertension
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.115.002284

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