Determinants of raised blood pressure in Urban Uganda: A community-based case-control study

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 15-20

  Chin, Jerome H ^a,b   Twinobuhungiro, Aska ^c,d   Sandhu, Alexander ^e,f   Hootsmans, Norbert ^g,h   Kayima, James ^d   Kalyesubula, Robert ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Uganda Defense Forces ^*  (Uganda)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g New York   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Cardiovascular Disease; Hypertension; Obesity; Stroke; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; HYPERTENSION; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODDS RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GLYCATED HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013468595     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18865/ed.27.1.15     Document Type: Article

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