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Impact of urbanisation and altitude on the incidence of, and risk factors for, hypertension

BACKGROUND: Most of the data regarding the burden of hypertension in low-income and middle-income countries comes from cross-sectional surveys instead of longitudinal studies. We estimated the incidence of, and risk factors for, hypertension in four study sites with different degree of urbanisation...

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Autores principales: Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio, Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M, Gilman, Robert H, Checkley, William, Smeeth, Liam, Miranda, J Jaime
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28115473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2016-310347