Study of urban community survey in India: Growing trend of high prevalence of hypertension in a developing country

International Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 70-78

  Das, Shyamal Kumar ^a,d,e   Sanyal, Kalyan ^b,d   Basu, Arindam ^c,f  

^a BANGUR INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY   (India)

^b Malda College   (India)

^c IPGMER   (India)

^d Minto Park Govt Housing Estate ^*

^e INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Eastern India; Hypertension; JNC VII criteria; Non vegetarian diet; Prehypertensives; Urban study

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COOKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FISH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PROTECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; URBAN POPULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETARIAN DIET; WORKER;

EID: 21744432330     PISSN: 14491907     EISSN: 14491907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/ijms.2.70     Document Type: Article

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