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Low utilization of health care services following screening for hypertension in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania): a prospective population-based study

BACKGROUND: Drug therapy in high-risk individuals has been advocated as an important strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease in low income countries. We determined, in a low-income urban population, the proportion of persons who utilized health services after having been diagnosed as hypertensive...

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Autores principales: Bovet, Pascal, Gervasoni, Jean-Pierre, Mkamba, Mashombo, Balampama, Marianna, Lengeler, Christian, Paccaud, Fred
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2615777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19087300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-407