Risk factors of hypertension among adults aged 35–64 years living in an urban slum Nairobi, Kenya
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Risk factors of hypertension among adults aged 35–64 years living in an urban slum Nairobi, Kenya
BACKGROUND Hypertension is an emerging public health problem in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and urbanization is considered to favor its emergence. Given a paucity of information on hypertension and associated risk factors among urban slum dwellers in SSA, we aimed to characterize the distribution of risk factors for hypertension and investigate their association with hypertension in an urban slum ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2610-8