Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension: Rule of thirds in the Skaraborg project

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 88-94

  Lindblad, Ulf ^a,b   Ek, Johanna ^a   Eckner, Jenny ^a   Larsson, Charlotte A ^c   Shan, Guangliang ^d   Råstam, Lennart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Skaraborgs Institutet   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Awareness; control; hypertension; population survey; prevention

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 84861749429     PISSN: 02813432     EISSN: 15027724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02813432.2012.684207     Document Type: Article

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