Cardiovascular health knowledge and behavior in patient attendants at four tertiary care hospitals in Pakistan - A cause for concern

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Jafary, Fahim H ^a   Aslam, Fawad ^a   Mahmud, Hussain ^a   Waheed, Abdul ^a   Shakir, Murtaza ^a   Afzal, Atif ^a   Qayyum, Mohammad A ^b   Akram, Javed ^c   Khan, Iqbal S ^d   Haque, Irshad U ^b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b Allied Hospital Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^c MAYO HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^d PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; AGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 29344438261     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-124     Document Type: Article

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