Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among herdsmen living at 4,300 m in Tibet

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 583-589

  Zhao, Xingshan ^a,b   Li, Shenshen ^c   Ba, Sang ^d   He, Feng ^b   Li, Nicole ^c   Ke, Liang ^c   Li, Xian ^c   Lam, Christopher ^e   Yan, Lijing L ^c,f   Zhou, Yujie ^a   Wu, Yangfeng ^c,g  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jishuitan Orthopaedic College of Tsinghua University   (China)

^c GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d Dangxiong People's Hospital   (China)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

aged; blood pressure; Herdsmen; high altitude; hypertension; Pastoralist; Tibet

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY MASS; CHINA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBET;

EID: 84862809640     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: 19417225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajh.2012.9     Document Type: Article

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