Publications by authors named "Karl A Eschbach"
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of hypertension in older Mexicans in the United States and Mexico.
Methods: Stratified by sex, logistic regression models to predict physician-diagnosed hypertension were conducted by using the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (wave 3) and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (age > or =70 years) datasets.
Results: Older Mexican and Mexican American women have a greater prevalence of hypertension than their male counterparts.
Background: The current recommendation is that pancreatic resections be performed at hospitals doing >10 pancreatic resections annually.
Objective: To evaluate the extent of regionalization of pancreatic resection and the factors predicting resection at high-volume centers (>10 cases/year) in Texas.
Methods: Using the Texas Hospital Inpatient Discharge Public Use Data File, we evaluated trends in the percentage of patients undergoing pancreatic resection at high-volume centers (>10 cases/year) from 1999 to 2004 and determined the factors that independently predicted resection at high-volume centers.