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Blood pressure tracking in urban black South African children: birth to twenty cohort

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is an emerging public health problem in South Africa. Recent evidence from longitudinal studies has shown that hypertension in adulthood can be traced back to childhood. There is scarcity of longitudinal data on paediatric blood pressure (BP) particularly in African populati...

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Autores principales: Kagura, Juliana, Adair, Linda S, Musa, Mogi G, Pettifor, John M, Norris, Shane A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26173634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0402-z