Prevalence, awareness, control, and associations of arterial hypertension in a rural central India population: The central India eye and medical study

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 347-350

  Jonas, Jost B ^a,b   Nangia, Vinay ^a   Matin, Arshia ^a   Joshi, Prashant P ^c   Ughade, Suresh N ^c  

^a Suraj Eye Institute   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Arterial hypertension; Blood pressure; Central India Eye and Medical Study; Epidemiology; Hypertension; India; Population based study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77949654683     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2009.276     Document Type: Article

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