Double trouble for couch potatoes: high blood pressure in a rural population in South Africa
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2011
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Mkhonto, M.Mabaso, D.Labadarios
KEYWORDS: HYPERTENSION, RURAL COMMUNITIES
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/November-2011/trouble-couch-potatoes
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7123
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3515
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3515
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2011
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Mkhonto, M.Mabaso, D.Labadarios
KEYWORDS: HYPERTENSION, RURAL COMMUNITIES
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/November-2011/trouble-couch-potatoes
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7123
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3515
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3515
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Abstract
Africa is faced with an increasing burden of hypertension, but a paucity of population-based evidence hinders effective preventive and control strategies for hypertension, write SETH MKHONTO, MUSA MABASO AND DEMETRE LABADARIOS.-
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