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September 1, 2001Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaOpen Access

A tool for assessing the usefulness of prevalence studies done for surveillance purposes: the example of hypertension

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LSLuis Carlos SilvaUniversidade de São PauloPOPedro OrdúñezPreventive CardiologyMRMaría Paz Gatica RodríguezAustral University of Chile

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May aid appraisal of hypertension prevalence studies; leaves open effects on surveillance reliability.

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Silva et al. (2001) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72bbf9f44fa9f079e01b75https://doi.org/10.1590/s1020-49892001000900002
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