Cardiovascular risk surveillance to develop a nationwide health promotion strategy: The grenada heart project

Global Heart

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 87-94

  Bansilal, Sameer ^a   Vedanthan, Rajesh ^a   Woodward, Mark ^b   Iyengar, Rupa ^a   Hunn, Marilyn ^a   Lewis, Marcelle ^c   Francis, Lesley ^d   Charney, Alexander ^a   Graves, Claire ^a   Farkouh, Michael E ^a,e   Fuster, Valentin ^a,f  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Grenada Heart Project   (Grenada)

^d MIS Statistical Consultants LLC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOBACCO; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84865472566     PISSN: 22118160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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