Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Prevalence of Hypertension and Diabetes in a South Asian Population.

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Published in J Immigr Minor Health on December 01, 2016

Authors

Pooja A Lagisetty1, Ming Wen2, Hwajung Choi3, Michele Heisler4,3, Alka M Kanaya5, Namratha R Kandula6

Author Affiliations

1: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, NCRC Bldg. 10, Rm G016-4A, 2800 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2800, USA. lagiset@med.umich.edu.
2: Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
3: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
4: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, NCRC Bldg. 10, Rm G016-4A, 2800 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2800, USA.
5: Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
6: Department of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

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