Aging, acculturation, salt intake, and hypertension in the Kuna of Panama.

K Hollenberg, N; Martinez, G; McCullough, M; Meinking, T; Passan, D; Preston, M; Rivera, A; Taplin, D; Vicaria-Clement, M

doi:10.1161/01.hyp.29.1.171

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Aging, acculturation, salt intake, and hypertension in the Kuna of Panama.

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N K Hollenberg

G Martinez

M McCullough

Abstract

The indigenous Kuna who live on islands in the Panamanian Caribbean were among the first communities described with little age-related rise in blood pressure or hypertension. Our goals in this study were to ascertain whether isolated island-dwelling Kuna continue to show this pattern, whether migrat...

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