Population
15,934 adult women in a rural community of Nepal, mean age 34.2 years, with a subsample of 1,679 for…
Design
Cross-sectional
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May warrant SES-stratified screening in rural Nepal; leaves open whether farm assets influence hypertension risk.
In rural Nepali women, the prevalence of hypertension is low (3.3%) but is strongly associated with lower socioeconomic status and other cardiovascular risk factors.
Khan et al. (2013) studied this question.
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