Prevalence of non-communicable disease risk factors in Eritrea

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 542-546

  Usman, Abdulmumini ^b   Mebrahtu, Goitom ^c   Mufunda, Jacob ^a   Nyarang'o, Peter ^a   Hagos, Goitom ^d   Kosia, Andrew ^b   Ghebrat, Yohannes ^b   Mosazghi, Asgedom ^c   Atanga, S Joseph ^e   Equbamichael, Mussie M ^a  

^a Orotta School of Medicine   (Eritrea)

^b WHO Eritrea Country Office   (Eritrea)

^c Ministry of Health   (Eritrea)

^d Orotta Specialist Hospital   (Eritrea)

^e Cameroon Burden of Diabetes Project Yaoundé   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Africa; Eritrea; NCD prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERITREA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34250758541     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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