Prevalence of hypertension in south-western Saudi Arabia

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-218

  Abolfotouh, Mostafa A ^a   Abu Zeid, Hassan A H ^a   Aziz, Mostafa Abdel ^a   Alakija, Wole ^a   Mahfouz, Ahmed A ^a   Bassuni, Wagih A ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ASEER CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

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