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Factors affecting blood pressure control in primary care

2013-01-01

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Background: Hypertension is the main cardiovascular risk factor. Worldwide, 40% of adults aged 25 years and over have hypertension. Only around 25% of hypertensive patients had controlled hypertension (CH). I assessed the association between individual factors, physician factors and health system factors with having CH. Methods: Population included 17252 hypertensive adults (HA) registered with 28 general practice...

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Literature Corpus work: 380ac191-0c58-515d-9174-90d97f41b194
DOI: 10.25560/18090

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