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Individual awareness and treatment effectiveness of hypertension among older adults in Ghana: evidence from the World Health Organization study of global ageing and adult health wave 2

INTRODUCTION: the aim of this study was to report the prevalence of hypertension, its awareness and treatment effectiveness among older adults (aged 50 years and above) in Ghana. METHODS: the Ghana World Health Organization´s (WHO) Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (SAGE) wave 2 dataset was use...

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Autores principales:	Calys-Tagoe, Benedict, Nuertey, Benjamin D, Tetteh, John, Yawson, Alfred Edwin
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7864259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598079 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.264.24526

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