The Pandora Project: Cost of hypertension from a general practitioner database

Blood Pressure

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 151-156

  Berto, Patrizia ^a   Esposti, Ezio Degli ^a   Ruffo, Pierfrancesco ^a   Buda, Stefano ^a   Esposti, Luca Degli ^a   Sturani, Alessandra ^a   Lopatriello, Stefania ^a  

^a PBE Consulting   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost of illness; Costs; Economics; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRINOGEN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; POTASSIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DRUG COST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0036300782     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/080370502760050386     Document Type: Article

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