Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in the elderly population of Singapore

Hypertension Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1223-1231

  Malhotra, Rahul ^a   Chan, Angelique ^a,b   Malhotra, Chetna ^a   Østbye, Truls ^a,c  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; blood pressure; health survey; Singapore

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK; SINGAPORE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 78649815421     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2010.177     Document Type: Article

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