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Educational inequalities in hypertension: complex patterns in intersections with gender and race in Brazil

BACKGROUND: Hypertension is a major public health issue worldwide, but knowledge is scarce about its patterns and its relationship to multiple axes of social disadvantages in Latin American countries. This study describes the educational inequality in the prevalence of hypertension in Brazil, includ...

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Autores principales: Alves, Ronaldo Fernandes Santos, Faerstein, Eduardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5112659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27852274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-016-0441-6