A community programme to reduce salt intake and blood pressure in Ghana [ISRCTN88789643]

BACKGROUND: In Africa hypertension is common and stroke is increasing. Detection, treatment and control of high blood pressure (BP) is limited. BP can be lowered by reducing salt intake. In Africa salt is added to the food by the consumer, as processed food is rare. A population-wide approach with p...

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Autores principales: Cappuccio, Francesco P, Kerry, Sally M, Micah, Frank B, Plange-Rhule, Jacob, Eastwood, John B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1382202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16433927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-13

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1382202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16433927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-13

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