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Prevalence, awareness, and associated risk factors of hypertension in older adults in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

BACKGROUND: The health of older persons has not been a major priority in many African countries. Hypertension is one of the common health problems of older persons. However, there is little information on the prevalence of hypertension in older adults in Africa. This is in spite of the fact that Afr...

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Autores principales: Bosu, William K., Aheto, Justice M. K., Zucchelli, Eugenio, Reilly, Siobhan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28978358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0585-5