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What causes concordance of hypertension between spouses in India? Identifying a critical knowledge gap from a nationally representative cross-sectional sample of 63,020 couples aged 15 + years

BACKGROUND: Hypertension, a critical risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, is found to cluster between spouses due to within-couple aggregation of antecedent environmental risk factors, either through assortative mating or cohabitation. However, majority of the evidence of spousal concordance of...

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Autores principales: Nayak, Gayatri, Ghosal, Shishirendu, Ghosal, Jyoti, Dutta, Ambarish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10373271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37501082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16379-z