Prevalence, detection, management, and control of hypertension in Ghanaian civil servants

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 505-511

  Addo, Juliet ^a   Smeeth, Liam ^a   Leon, David A ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Detection; Ghana; Hypertension; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFFICE WORKER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; LIFESTYLE; OCCUPATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; OCCUPATIONS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 59849101864     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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