Awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension among adult population in a rural community of Singur block, Hooghly District, West Bengal

• Main Authors: Nabarun Karmakar (Author), Kaushik Nag (Author), Indranil Saha (Author), Ramanathan Parthasarathi (Author), Manas Patra (Author), Rabindranath Sinha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Hypertension is an important treatable public health problem both globally and in India with an increasing prevalence significantly in both urban and rural population. It is one of the leading causes of adult mortality and morbidity, but poorly controlled hypertension remains a major hea...