Cohort monitoring of persons with hypertension: An illustrated example from a primary healthcare clinic for Palestine refugees in Jordan

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1163-1170

  Khader, Ali ^a   Farajallah, Loai ^a   Shahin, Yousef ^a   Hababeh, Majed ^a   Abu Zayed, Ishtaiwi ^b   Kochi, Arata ^c   Harries, Anthony D ^d,e   Zachariah, Rony ^f   Kapur, Anil ^g   Venter, Wendy ^a   Seita, Akihiro ^a  

^a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East   (Jordan)

^b UNRWA   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^g World Diabetes Foundation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cohort reports; Diabetes mellitus; Hypertension; Jordan; Palestine refugees

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; ATENOLOL; DILTIAZEM; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; METHYLDOPA; NIFEDIPINE; PROPRANOLOL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH MONITORING; HYPERTENSION; PRESSURE EFFECT; REFUGEE; STROKE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PALESTINE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ARABS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JORDAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

AMMAN; JORDAN;

EID: 84865593132     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03048.x     Document Type: Article

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