Relationship between alcohol drinking and arterial hypertension in indigenous people of the Mura ethnics, Brazil.

To identify the consumption of alcoholic beverage and the relation with hypertension, their prevalence and associated factors, in indigenous Mura, Brazil.A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted with 455 adult indigenous aged 18 years or more of Mura ethnics in Amazonia, Brazil. Interv...

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Main Authors: Alaidistania Aparecida Ferreira, Zilmar Augusto Souza-Filho, Maria Jacirema F Gonçalves, Juliano Santos, Angela Maria G Pierin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5544198?pdf=render