May Measurement Month: a global blood pressure screening campaign

The Lancet

Volumn 389, Issue 10080, 2017, Pages 1678-1680

  Poulter, Neil R ^a   Lackland, Daniel T ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBAL DISEASE BURDEN; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART RATE; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; MASS SCREENING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 85018332680     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31048-6     Document Type: Note

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