Prevalence, awareness, treatment, control and risk factors for hypertension in a rural population in South India

Prabhdeep Kaur (), Sudha Rao, Ezhil Radhakrishnan, Daniel Rajasekar and Mohan Gupte

International Journal of Public Health, 2012, vol. 57, issue 1, 87-94

Abstract: Hypertension is an emerging challenge in rural India. We need health promotion programs and reorientation of primary health care to improve hypertension detection and management. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2012

Keywords: Hypertension; Risk factors; Rural; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-011-0303-3

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