Differences in hypertension between informal and formal areas of Ouagadougou, a sub-Saharan African city

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Doulougou, Boukaré ^a,b   Kouanda, Séni ^b   Rossier, Clémentine ^c,d   Soura, Abdramane ^c   Zunzunegui, Maria Victoria ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé   (Burkina Faso)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU   (Burkina Faso)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adult population; Hypertension; Ouagadougou; Prevalence; Risk factors; Rural to urban migrants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BURKINA FASO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICA, NORTHERN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BURKINA FASO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907974145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-893     Document Type: Article

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