Prevalence and associated factors of hypertension: a crossectional community based study in northwest ethiopia.
BACKGROUND:Hypertension, being the root cause of many of the body sytem and organs failure, remains to be a major public health challenge globally. Though the problem is huge in both developed and developing countries, data are scarce in developing countries like Ethiopia. Therefore, this study was...
Main Authors: | Solomon Mekonnen Abebe, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku, Assefa Getachew |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4409323?pdf=render |
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