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Research reports from University of California, Medical Department provide new insights into hypertension

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 30th, 2009

"Little is known about statistical associations between occupation and hypertension for persons more than age 65. We analyzed cross-sectional data from the 2004 Health and Retirement Survey," investigators in the United States report.

"We drew 12 gender-specific sub-samples (age 65+; age 70+; age 75+) who reported at least I year or 10 years tenure in the same occupation. For 65+ with at least 1 year tenure, n = 3645 men and n = 3644 women. Hypertension was self-reported based on Physician diagnosis. Logistic regressions controlled for demographic variables and risk factors. After adjusting fir control variables, including education, race, income, smoking, drinking,...

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