High blood pressure and exposure to dust from gold mine dumps among the elderly in South Africa: A cross-sectional study

• Päätekijät: Vusumuzi Nkosi (Tekijä), Joyce Shirinde (Tekijä), Funzani Rathogwa-Takalani (Tekijä), Kuku Voyi (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: Elsevier, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Aiheet: article
• Linkit: Connect to this object online.

Objective: To investigate whether high blood pressure was associated with living close to a mine dump among the elderly in South Africa. Study design: This was a cross-sectional study conducted among the elderly in communities 1-2 km (exposed) and 5 km or more (unexposed), from five pre-selected min...