Status report on hypertension in Africa - Consultative review for the 6th Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health on NCD’ss

van de Vijver, Steven; Akinyi, Hilda; Oti, Samuel; Olajide, Ademola; Agyemang, Charles; Aboderin, Isabella; Kyobutungi, Catherine

doi:10.11604/pamj.2013.16.38.3100

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Status report on hypertension in Africa - Consultative review for the 6th Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health on NCD’ss

Published in Pan African Medical Journal • Jan 1, 2013

Authors:

Steven van de Vijver

Hilda Akinyi

Samuel Oti

Abstract

Hypertension has always been regarded as a disease of affluence but this has changed drastically in the last two decades with average blood pressures now higher in Africa than in Europe and USA and the prevalence increasing among poor sections of society. We have conducted a literature search on Pub...

Subject

Medicine

Context (archaeology)

Poverty

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