Prevalence of hypertension and its modifiable risk factors amongst traditional chiefs of an oil-bearing community in south-south Nigeria
Background: The epidemiological transition has firmly berthed in Nigeria′s oil-bearing communities, but the pace is often different in subsets of the community, depending on how readily the western lifestyle is being adopted. This study determined the prevalence of hypertension and its modifiable ri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Sahel Medical Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.smjonline.org/article.asp?issn=1118-8561;year=2013;volume=16;issue=1;spage=24;epage=27;aulast=Ordinioha |