Hypertension in Mexican adults: results from the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006 Hipertensión en adultos mexicanos: resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Nutrición y Salud 2006

• Main Authors: Simón Barquera (Author), Ismael Campos-Nonato (Author), Lucía Hernández-Barrera (Author), Salvador Villalpando (Author), César Rodríguez-Gilabert (Author), Ramón Durazo-Arvizú (Author), Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of hypertension among Mexican adults, and to compare to that observed among Mexican-Americans living in the US. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The primary data source came from adults (>20 years) sampled (n=33366) in the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 200...