Improvement of long-term risks of cardiovascular events associated with community-based disease management in Chinese patients of the Xinjiang autonomous region of China

• Main Authors: Yang Li (Author), Cai Minzhang (Author), Ma Minghui (Author), Huang Xinmiao (Author), Liu Laixin (Author), Wang Bei (Author), Zhu Weihai (Author), Zhe Wei (Author), Guan Yumei (Author), Thitima Kongnakorn (Author), Ying Xiao (Author), Siyang Peng (Author), David Hughes (Author), Naranjargal Dashdorj (Author), Thomas Hach (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A recent community-based disease management (CBDM) pilot study reported a 20.5% prevalence of hypertension and a 0.5 and 3.6% prevalence of stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD), respectively, in an elderly population (mean age 65 years) in the Xin Jiang autonomous region of Ch...