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Knowledge of Hypertension and Compliance with Therapy Among Hypertensive Patients in the Bamenda Health District of Cameroon: A Cross-sectional Study

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of hypertension has continued to increase and is now a great burden for health care providers. Obtaining information on the factors affecting compliance to antihypertensive drugs is thus important. The aim of this study was to assess knowledge of hypertension and to dete...

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Autores principales:	Akoko, Bentley Mbekwa, Fon, Peter Nde, Ngu, Roland Cheofor, Ngu, Kathleen Blackett
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Springer Healthcare 2016
Materias:	Original Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5446812/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28035630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40119-016-0079-x

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