Arterial blood pressures and hypertension in an urban African population sample.
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Arterial blood pressures and hypertension in an urban African population sample.
In the last three decades increasing attention has been paid to a systematic study of arterial blood pressures and hypertension in the native African. The recent reports have shown that, contrary to the opinions of earlier authors (Donnison, 1929; Vint, 1937; Kenney and Watkins, 1956), hypertension commonly affects Africans (see Symposium on Blood Pressure and Hypertension in Africa, 1969) and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.25.1.26