Socio-Economic Inequalities in Hypertension Burden and Cascade of Services: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in Nepal

Authors

Shiva Mishra, Research and Communication Nepal Development SocietyFollow
Saruna Ghimire, University of Nevada, NVFollow
Archana Shrestha, Harvard T Chan School of Public Health
Salim S. Virani, Baylor College of MedicineFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-18-2019

Publication Title

Journal of Human Hypertension

First page number:

1

Last page number:

13

Abstract

With an aim to examine the socio-economic inequalities in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, this study analyzed 14,823 adults, 15 years or older with blood pressure measured, in the 2016 Nepal Demographic Health Survey...(See full text for complete abstract)

Disciplines

Community Health

Repository Citation

Mishra, S., Ghimire, S., Shrestha, A., Virani, S. S. (2019). Socio-Economic Inequalities in Hypertension Burden and Cascade of Services: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in Nepal. Journal of Human Hypertension 1-13.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41371-019-0165-3