Association of hypertension and hyperglycaemia with socioeconomic contexts in resource-poor settings: the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey.

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Published in Int J Epidemiol on July 06, 2015

Authors

Eric Harshfield1, Rajiv Chowdhury1, Meera N Harhay2, Henry Bergquist3, Michael O Harhay4

Author Affiliations

1: Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
2: Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
3: Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
4: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and mharhay@upenn.edu.

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