Prevalence and awareness of risk factors and behaviours of coronary heart disease in an urban population of Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan: A community survey

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 245-249

  Dodani, Sunita ^a   Mistry, Rozina ^b   Farooqi, Muna ^c   Khwaja, Aftab ^b   Qureshi, Riaz ^d   Kazmi, Khawar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Health Promotion Resource Center   (Pakistan)

^c Apartment No 13 ^*  (Canada)

^d AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Developing countries; Hypertension; Prevalence; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; OBESITY; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RISK FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 4744349605     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdh154     Document Type: Article

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