A low-cost solar-powered blood-pressure device

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9792, 2011, Pages 647-648

  Sliwa, Karen ^a   Stewart, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; FIVE POINT LIKERT SCALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 80052001400     PISSN: 0140-6736     EISSN: 1474-547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60131-1     Document Type: Note

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