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Alarming prevalence and clustering of modifiable noncommunicable disease risk factors among adults in Bhutan: a nationwide cross-sectional community survey

BACKGROUND: Bhutan is currently facing a double burden of non-communicable (NCDs) and communicable diseases, with rising trends of NCDs. The 2014 STEPS survey identified high prevalence of several NCD risk factors; however, associations with socio-demographic characteristics as well as clustering of...

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Autores principales:	Pelzom, Dorji, Isaakidis, Petros, Oo, Myo Minn, Gurung, Mongal Singh, Yangchen, Pemba
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2017
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5740865/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29268747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4989-x

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