Risk factors assessment for hypertension in a squatter settlement of Karachi

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 390-392

  Siddiqui, Hemna ^a   Anjum, Qudsia ^a   Omair, Amir ^a   Usman, Jawed ^a   Rizvi, Raza ^a   Ashfaq, Tabinda ^a  

^a ZIAUDDIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXERCISE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING HABIT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 31344481470     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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