Evaluation of therapeutic control in a Pakistani population with hypertension

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1081-1084

  Saleheen, Danish ^a   Hashmi, Saman K ^a   Zaidi, Moazzam ^a   Rasheed, Asif ^a   Murtaza, Muhammed ^a   Abbas, Adil ^a   Nasim, Sana ^a   Hameed, Mustafa Qadir ^a   Shuja, Fahad ^a   Sethi, Muhammad Jawad ^a   Hussain, Imad ^a   Shahid, Kamran ^a   Khalid, Hamza ^a   Ahmad, Usman ^a,b   Frossard, Philippe M ^a   Ishaq, Muhammad ^a  

^a Center for Non Communicable Diseases   (Pakistan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular risk factors; hypertension; Pakistan; South Asia; therapeutic control

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAKISTAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78650610635     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01256.x     Document Type: Article

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