Cardiovascular risk in a rural adult West African population: Is resting heart rate also relevant?

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 584-591

  Kunutsor, Setor ^a   Powles, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; resting heart rate; risk factor; rural; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING HEART RATE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900405204     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2047487312462149     Document Type: Article

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