State of non-communicable diseases in Nepal

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bhandari, Gajananda Prakash ^a   Angdembe, Mirak Raj ^b   Dhimal, Meghnath ^c   Neupane, Sushma ^c   Bhusal, Choplal ^c  

^a Nepal Public Health Foundation   (Nepal)

^b POKHARA UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^c Norway   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Burden; Chronic disease; Magnitude; Nepal; Non communicable disease; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84892402650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-23     Document Type: Article

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