Hypertension in India
Institute of Public Health · GTx (United States) · +6 more institutions
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Abstract
Background
A region-specific (urban and rural parts of north, east, west, and south India) systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence, awareness, and control of hypertension among Indian patients have not been done before.
Methods
Medline, Web of Science, and Scopus databases from 1950 to 30 April 2013 were searched for 'prevalence, burden, awareness, and control of blood pressure (BP) or hypertension (≥140 SBP and or ≥90 DBP) among Indian adults' (≥18 years). Of the total 3047 articles, 142 were included.
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Topics
Keywords
- Medicine
- Confidence interval
- Scopus
- Blood pressure
- Rural area
- Prevalence
- Demography
- Epidemiology
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