Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants

<strong>Background</strong> Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure tail (repres...

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Main Author: NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
Other Authors: Chen, Z
Format: Journal article
Published: Oxford University Press 2018