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SUBMITTER: Booth JN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5823255 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Booth John N JN Abdalla Marwah M Tanner Rikki M RM Diaz Keith M KM Bromfield Samantha G SG Tajeu Gabriel S GS Correa Adolfo A Sims Mario M Ogedegbe Gbenga G Bress Adam P AP Spruill Tanya M TM Shimbo Daichi D Muntner Paul P
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 20170626 2
Several modifiable health behaviors and health factors that comprise the Life's Simple 7-a cardiovascular health metric-have been associated with hypertension risk. We determined the association between cardiovascular health and incident hypertension in JHS (the Jackson Heart Study)-a cohort of blacks. We analyzed participants without hypertension or cardiovascular disease at baseline (2000-2004) who attended ≥1 follow-up visit in 2005 to 2008 or 2009 to 2012 (n=1878). Body mass index, physical ...[more]