hypertension. Hypertension is a leading global health problem, as well as being an important health measure that responds quickly … increases in blood pressure and hypertension, which have implications for future health budgets given the recent worldwide …

focus is on hypertension, which is the most prevalent health condition in Western countries. Using data from the Health … that they have hypertension as a chronic health condition compared to that from repeated measurements by a trained nurse …. Around 85% of individuals measured as having hypertension do not report having it as a chronic illness. Importantly, we find …

of depression, high cholesterol, and hypertension between Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanics whites using …

This paper estimates the exogenous effect of schooling on reduced incidence of hypertension. Using the changes in the … schooling reduces the probability of developing subsequent hypertension by approximately 7-12% points; the result which holds … and negative bias in the probit estimates of schooling-hypertension relationship for the male subsample. …

nations report lower levels of hypertension. The paper’s results are consistent with, and seem to offer a step towards the …

the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two … unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender log wage gap is due to differences between men and women in …