Prevalence, Awareness, Medication, Control, and Risk Factors Associated with Hypertension in Bai Ethnic Group in Rural China: The Yunnan Minority Eye Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Jinman ^a,b   Huang, Qin ^a   Yu, Minbin ^c   Cha, Xueping ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Yuan, Yuansheng ^a   Wei, Tao ^a   Zhong, Hua ^a  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CHINA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84881520283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070886     Document Type: Article

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