HYPERTENSION IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

Known cases of hypertension and those fulfilling WHO criteria for diagnosis of hypertension were identified in psychiatric patients and compared with non - hypertensive psychiatric patients. Hypertension was detected in 141 (9.98%) cases, and was significantly more associated with elder age, married...

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Autores principales: Chaturvedi, Santosh K, Michael, Albert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1986
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927142
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description Known cases of hypertension and those fulfilling WHO criteria for diagnosis of hypertension were identified in psychiatric patients and compared with non - hypertensive psychiatric patients. Hypertension was detected in 141 (9.98%) cases, and was significantly more associated with elder age, married status, urban background and neurotic illness. The implications are in early detection and effective management of hypertension in psychiatric patients.
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spelling pubmed-31725002011-09-16 HYPERTENSION IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS Chaturvedi, Santosh K Michael, Albert Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Known cases of hypertension and those fulfilling WHO criteria for diagnosis of hypertension were identified in psychiatric patients and compared with non - hypertensive psychiatric patients. Hypertension was detected in 141 (9.98%) cases, and was significantly more associated with elder age, married status, urban background and neurotic illness. The implications are in early detection and effective management of hypertension in psychiatric patients. Medknow Publications 1986 /pmc/articles/PMC3172500/ /pubmed/21927142 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short HYPERTENSION IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
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