Are the rates of hypertension and diabetes higher in people from lower socioeconomic status in Bangladesh? Results from a nationally representative survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Tareque, Md Ismail ^a   Koshio, Atsushi ^b   Tiedt, Andrew D ^c   Hasegawa, Toshihiko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^b Graduate School of Project Design   (Japan)

^c United States Department of Justice   (United States)

^d NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; OBESITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BANGLADESH; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84959261733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127954     Document Type: Article

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