A cross-sectional study of vascular risk factors in a rural South African population: data from the Southern African Stroke Prevention Initiative (SASPI).

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Published in BMC Public Health on November 13, 2007

Authors

Margaret Thorogood1, Myles Connor, Stephen Tollman, Gillian Lewando Hundt, Gerry Fowkes, Jennifer Marsh

Author Affiliations

1: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. m.thorogood@warwick.ac.uk

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