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SUBMITTER: Jessen N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6479432 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jessen Neusa N Govo Valério V Calua Eleutério E Machava Moséstia M Fabula Alima A Novela Célia C Mbanze Irina I Muianga Catarina C Banze Reginaldo R Zandamela Imphikaxane I Oliveira Angelo A Xia Xin X Beaney Thomas T Poulter Neil R NR Damasceno Albertino A
European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology 20190424 Suppl D
Elevated blood pressure (BP) is a growing burden worldwide, leading to over 10 million deaths each year. In Mozambique, two national surveys of risk factors for chronic diseases were done, using the WHO STEPWISE approach, the first in 2005 and the last in 2014/2015. In this period of 10 years, the prevalence of hypertension in the adult population increased from 33.1% to 38.9% and the extremely low levels of awareness, treatment, and control did not change significantly. May Measurement Month (M ...[more]