Comparison of anti-hypertensive medication compliance between the tea tribe community and the non-tea tribe community seeking treatment from mobile medical units of Assam

• Main Authors: Kirthana V (Author), Tapashi Adhikary (Author), Reetam Sarma (Author), Shilpa Ravi (Author), Anusha Purushotham (Author), Shailendra Kumar B. Hegde (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Hypertension is the priority non-communicable disease, whose prevalence ranges from 10% to 55% and an estimated pooled prevalence of 16.1% within the tribal communities of India. Poor compliance to medication is a barrier to control hypertension levels and is an emerging public health ch...