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Risk factors of hypertension among adults aged 35–64 years living in an urban slum Nairobi, Kenya

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is an emerging public health problem in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and urbanization is considered to favor its emergence. Given a paucity of information on hypertension and associated risk factors among urban slum dwellers in SSA, we aimed to characterize the distribution of r...

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Autores principales:	Olack, Beatrice, Wabwire-Mangen, Fred, Smeeth, Liam, Montgomery, Joel M., Kiwanuka, Noah, Breiman, Robert F.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683777/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679701 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2610-8

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