Awareness of Hypertension among patients attending Primary Health Care Centre and Outpatient Department of tertiary care hospital of Karachi

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 396-399

  Ashfaq, Tabinda ^a   Anjum, Qudsia ^a   Siddiqui, Hemna ^a   Shaikh, Shazia ^a   Vohra, Ejaz Ahmed ^a  

^a ZIAUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; OIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAKISTAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT DURATION; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT CONTROL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; POVERTY;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 35348907215     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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