Community medicine in the primary health sector. II. The distribution of blood-pressure as a risk factor, a community diagnosis

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Community medicine in the primary health sector. II. The distribution of blood-pressure as a risk factor, a community diagnosis. / Saelan, H.; Krasnik, A.; Kempinski, R.

I: Ugeskrift for Laeger, Bind 141, Nr. 1, 01.01.1979, s. 45-51.

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Saelan, H, Krasnik, A & Kempinski, R 1979, 'Community medicine in the primary health sector. II. The distribution of blood-pressure as a risk factor, a community diagnosis', Ugeskrift for Laeger, bind 141, nr. 1, s. 45-51.

APA

Saelan, H., Krasnik, A., & Kempinski, R. (1979). Community medicine in the primary health sector. II. The distribution of blood-pressure as a risk factor, a community diagnosis. Ugeskrift for Laeger, 141(1), 45-51.

Vancouver

Saelan H, Krasnik A, Kempinski R. Community medicine in the primary health sector. II. The distribution of blood-pressure as a risk factor, a community diagnosis. Ugeskrift for Laeger. 1979 jan. 1;141(1):45-51.

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Saelan, H. ; Krasnik, A. ; Kempinski, R. / Community medicine in the primary health sector. II. The distribution of blood-pressure as a risk factor, a community diagnosis. I: Ugeskrift for Laeger. 1979 ; Bind 141, Nr. 1. s. 45-51.

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abstract = "A total of 10,202 individuals between 16 and 60 were investigated. In this manner, the material could be subdivided into a risk population consisting of the individuals who already were receiving anti-hypertensive treatment and those individuals in whom three blood-pressure measurements either revealed a systolic blood-pressure of more than or equal to 160 mm Hg or a diastolic pressure more than or equal to 95 mm Hg. Thereafter, the risk population was included in an intervention programme. The median blood-pressure for all persons investigated was 128 mm Hg. The median diastolic blood-pressure was 80 mm Hg. 1.9% of the individuals investigated were already receiving anti-hypertensive therapy and 2.5% of those examined had blood-pressures over the limits stated on all three measurements. The risk population thus consisted of 4,4% of all the persons investigated. Increasing systolic and diastolic blood-pressures were found with increasing age in both sexes. In the younger age-groups, however, the blood-pressures were higher for men than for women, whereas conditions were reversed in the older age-groups. No definite correlation was found between the blood-pressure level and the occupation or the composition of the household.",
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