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...
Main Authors: | Best Ordinioha, Seiyefa Brisibe |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2013-01-01
|
Series: | Sahel Medical Journal |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://www.smjonline.org/article.asp?issn=1118-8561;year=2013;volume=16;issue=1;spage=24;epage=27;aulast=Ordinioha |
Similar Items
-
Imagining the Marshalls: Chiefs, tradition, and the state on the fringes of United States empire
by: Walsh, Julianne Marie
Published: (2008) -
The Sacred Nature of the Akan Chief and its Implications for Tradition, Modernity and Religious Human Rights in Ghana
by: Tweneboah, Seth
Published: (2012) -
Chief Editors Commentary
by: Dieter W Heermann
Published: (2015-09-01) -
The role of traditional leaders in the promotion of Local Economic Development
by: Mahole, Ephraim
Published: (2017) -
Chief complaints of patients attending college of Dentistry at Mosul University
by: Baceer A Abdullah, et al.
Published: (2007-08-01)