Blood pressure patterns in rural, semi-urban and urban children in the Ashanti region of Ghana, West Africa

BACKGROUND: High blood pressure, once rare, is rapidly becoming a major public health burden in sub-Saharan/Africa. It is unclear whether this is reflected in children. The main purpose of this study was to assess blood pressure patterns among rural, semi-urban, and urban children and to determine t...

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Autores principales: Agyemang, Charles, Redekop, William K, Owusu-Dabo, Ellis, Bruijnzeels, Marc A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1289286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16262905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-114

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1289286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16262905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-114

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