Prevalence and covariates of abnormal left ventricular geometry in never-treated hypertensive patients in Tanzania

Blood Pressure

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-38

  Chillo, Pilly ^a,b   Lwakatare, Johnson ^b   Rieck, Åshild E ^a   Lutale, Janet ^b   Gerdts, Eva ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Albuminuria; Hypertension; Left ventricular geometry; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TANZANIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA;

EID: 84896719954     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037051.2013.791415     Document Type: Article

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