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Alarmingly high prevalence of hypertension and pre-hypertension in North India-results from a large cross-sectional STEPS survey

OBJECTIVES: The study was primarily aimed at estimating the prevalence of hypertension and pre-hypertension and the risk factors of hypertension in the North Indian state of Punjab. It also aimed at assessing the magnitude of undiagnosed cases of hypertension in the community and ascertaining the bl...

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Autores principales: Tripathy, Jaya Prasad, Thakur, Jarnail Singh, Jeet, Gursimer, Chawla, Sohan, Jain, Sanjay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5739392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29267338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188619