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Gender-related differences in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors and their correlates in urban Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Urban areas in Africa suffer a serious problem with dual burden of infectious diseases and emerging chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes which pose a serious threat to population health and health care resources. However in East Africa, there is limited lit...

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Autores principales:	Njelekela, Marina A, Mpembeni, Rose, Muhihi, Alfa, Mligiliche, Nuru L, Spiegelman, Donna, Hertzmark, Ellen, Liu, Enju, Finkelstein, Julia L, Fawzi, Wafaie W, Willett, Walter C, Mtabaji, Jacob
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2009
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723083/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19615066 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-9-30

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