Hypertension in Bo, Sierra Leone

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-242

  Meehan, Kate A ^a   Bankoski, Andrea J ^b   Tejan, Edries ^a   Ansumana, Rashid ^a   Bangura, Umaru ^a   Stenger, David A ^c   Jacobsen, Kathryn H ^b  

^a Mercy Hospital Research Laboratory   (Sierra Leone)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Hypertension; Sierra Leone; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREVALENCE; SIERRA LEONE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SIERRA LEONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053331468     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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