Community-based surveillance of cardiovascular risk factors in Geneva: Methods, resulting distributions, and comparisons with other populations

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-319

  Morabia, Alfredo ^a   Bernstein, Martine ^a   Héritier, Stéphane ^a   Ylli, Alban ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cardiovascular diseases; confidence intervals; percentiles; risk factors; surveillance; survey

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030966562     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1997.0146     Document Type: Article

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