Knowledge and Prevalence of Hypertension among Cleaners in a University in the Southwestern region of Nigeria.
Background: Hypertension has become an important public health challenge globally because of its high prevalence and concomitant increase in its risk for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renal diseases. A major characteristic of this disease is its insidious onset and the inability of the affecte...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 621 - 633 |
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International Journal of Caring Sciences
May-Aug2014
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