Assessment of hypertension control in a district of Mombasa, Kenya

Global Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-306

  Jenson, Alexander ^a   Omar, Athman Lali ^b   Omar, Muntaha Athman ^c   Rishad, A S ^d   Khoshnood, Kaveh ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kenya: Swahili Studies and Coastal Studies   (Kenya)

^c Coast General Hospital ^*  (Kenya)

^d The Mombasa Hospital   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Kenya; Mombasa; Non communicable diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KENYA; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK FACTOR; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KENYA; LIFE STYLE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SMOKING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 79952467470     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2010.510478     Document Type: Article

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