Blood pressure and hypertension in rural and urban Sierra Leoneans

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 254-263

  Lisk, Durodami R ^a,c   Williams, Desmond E M ^a   Slattery, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Georgetown Hospital   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Africans; Hypertension; Prevalence; Rural Urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SIERRA LEONE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SIERRA LEONE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033093611     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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