Impact of literacy on the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in adults in Golestan province (northern Iran)

Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 580-584

  Veghari, Gholamreza ^a   Sedaghat, Mehdi ^a   Maghsodlo, Siavash ^a   Banihashem, Samieh ^a   Moharloei, Pooneh ^a   Angizeh, Abdolhamid ^a   Tazik, Ebrahim ^a   Moghaddami, Abbas ^a  

^a GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Awareness; Control; Hypertension; Iran; Literacy; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 84872814598     PISSN: 20086164     EISSN: 20086172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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