Global burden of hypertension: analysis
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Patricia M Kearney; Megan Whelton; Kristi Reynolds; Paul Muntner; Paul K Whelton
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Article
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2005
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The Lancet
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English
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## Background: Reliable information about the prevalence of hypertension in different world regions is essential to the development of national and international health policies for prevention and control of this condition. we aimed to pool data from different regions of the world to estimate the o