Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

<strong>Background:</strong> Elevated blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and the prevalence of, and number of people wit...

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Main Authors: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Zhou, B, Bentham, J, Di Cesare, M, Chen, Z, Key, T, Smith, M, Woodward, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016