Prevalence, awareness and factors associated with hypertension in North West Tanzania

Global Health Action

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Mosha, Neema R ^a   Mahande, Michael ^a   Juma, Adinan ^b,c   Mboya, Innocent ^c   Peck, Rob ^d,e   Urassa, Mark ^f   Michael, Denna ^f   Todd, Jim ^f,g  

^a National Institute for Medical Research   (Tanzania)

^b Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

^c KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^d WEILL BUGANDO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Tanzania)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^g LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult; Community based; Hypertension; Prevalence; Risk factors; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85028531728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1321279     Document Type: Article

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