Prevalence of chronic medical conditions in Switzerland: Exploring estimates validity by comparing complementary data sources

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zellweger, Ueli ^a   Bopp, Matthias ^a   Holzer, Barbara M ^a,b   Djalali, Sima ^a   Kaplan, Vladimir ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c District Hospital Freiamt Muri   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chronic medical condition; Diabetes mellitus; Dyslipidemia; Hypertension; Obesity; Population; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84940997727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1157     Document Type: Article

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