Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 4, Issue 5 , Pages 236-243 , September 2010

The association between acculturation and hypertension in a multiethnic sample of US adults

  • Srinivas Teppala, MD, MPH
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  • Anoop Shankar, MD, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Anoop Shankar, MD, MPH, PhD, Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 9190, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506–9190. Tel: 304-293-0199; fax: 304-293-6685.
    • ,
  • Alan Ducatman, MD, MSc

Received 21 April 2010 ,Accepted 7 July 2010.

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 Conflict of interest: none.

PII: S1933-1711(10)00126-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jash.2010.07.001

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Volume 4, Issue 5 , Pages 236-243 , September 2010

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