Awareness, treatment adherence and risk predictors of uncontrolled hypertension at a tertiary care teaching hospital in Western India
Introduction: Hypertension still remains poorly controlled. Result: Adequate BP control was achieved in 37.4% of patients and significant attributes for poor control were BMI, marital status, literacy, socioeconomic status, smoking, medication adherence, absence of side effects, number of drugs, num...
Main Authors: | Rahul Choudhary, Shashi Mohan Sharma, Vimla Kumari, Dinesh Gautam |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-09-01
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Series: | Indian Heart Journal |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019483216301262 |
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