Rate and Risk of all cause mortality among people with known hypertension in a rural community of southern Kerala, India: The results from the prolife cohort

Background: Hypertension is one of the most important determinants of death due to vascular damage and is fast emerging as a high burden disease in India. However, its documentation is poor in the country. This study aims to estimate the rate and the causal pattern of mortality in a cohort of people...

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Main Authors: Anu Kuriakose, Thekkumkara Surendran Nair Anish, Biju Soman, Ron Thomas Varghese, Thekkumkara Prabhakaran Sreelal, Alice Matilda Mendez, Anitha Abraham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
Series:International Journal of Preventive Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.ijpvmjournal.net/article.asp?issn=2008-7802;year=2014;volume=5;issue=5;spage=596;epage=603;aulast=Kuriakose