Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Adult Residents of Tehran: The Tehran Cohort Study

• Main Authors: Alireza Oraii (Author), Akbar Shafiee (Author), Arash Jalali (Author), Farshid Alaeddini (Author), Soheil Saadat (Author), Saeed Sadeghian (Author), Hamidreza Poorhosseini (Author), Mohamamdali Boroumand (Author), Abbasali Karimi (Author), Oscar H. Franco (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: High levels of blood pressure (BP) remain undetected and poorly controlled in large segments of the population leading to an enormous burden in terms of disease and mortality. Objective: We aimed to assess the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in Tehran. Metho...