Prevalence of Hypertension and Associated Risk Factors in Western Alaska Native People: The Western Alaska Tribal Collaborative for Health (WATCH) Study.

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Published in J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) on February 03, 2015

Authors

Stacey E Jolly1, Kathryn R Koller2, Jesse S Metzger2, Gretchen M Day2, Angela Silverman3, Scarlett E Hopkins4, Melissa A Austin5, Bernadette Boden-Albala6, Sven O E Ebbesson4, Bert B Boyer4, Barbara V Howard3,7, Jason G Umans3,7

Author Affiliations

1: General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute, Cleveland, OH.
2: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK.
3: MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD.
4: Center for Alaska Native Health Research, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK.
5: Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
6: Global Institute of Public Health, New York University, New York, NY.
7: Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Washington, DC.

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