This cross-sectional survey provides epidemiological data on arterial blood pressure levels across age and sex in a semi-urban Indian population.
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Adds semi-urban Indian BP norms by age/sex; extends rural-urban comparisons but leaves practice implications open.
The paper presents a survey of arterial blood pressures measured in 509 adult males and females selcted at random from a semi-urban population of 8333. The casual blood pressure levels have been analysed in relation to age and sex and compared with other rural and urban populations in India.
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R. Sambasiva Rao (1980) studied this question.
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