Prevalence,awareness and factors associated with hypertension in North West Tanzania

• Main Authors: Neema R. Mosha (Author), Michael Mahande (Author), Adinan Juma (Author), Innocent Mboya (Author), Rob Peck (Author), Mark Urassa (Author), Denna Michael (Author), Jim Todd (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Hypertension is a public health problem, and yet few people are aware of it and even fewer access effective treatment. With the ongoing demographic transition in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, people are changing from rural, manual work to urban lifestyles, hence the risk of hypertens...