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Stark Regional and Sex Differences in the Prevalence and Awareness of Hypertension: An H3Africa AWI-Gen Study Across 6 Sites in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Published in Glob Heart on March 13, 2017

Authors

F Xavier Gómez-Olivé1, Stuart A Ali2, Felix Made2, Catherine Kyobutungi3, Engelbert Nonterah4, Lisa Micklesfield5, Marianne Alberts6, Romuald Boua7, Scott Hazelhurst8, Cornelius Debpuur4, Felistas Mashinya6, Sekgothe Dikotope6, Hermann Sorgho7, Ian Cook9, Stella Muthuri3, Cassandra Soo2, Freedom Mukomana2, Godfred Agongo4, Christopher Wandabwa3, Sulaimon Afolabi10, Abraham Oduro4, Halidou Tinto7, Ryan G Wagner10, Tilahun Haregu3, Alisha Wade10, Kathleen Kahn10, Shane A Norris5, Nigel J Crowther11, Stephen Tollman10, Osman Sankoh12, Michèle Ramsay13, as members of AWI-Gen and the H3Africa Consortium

Author Affiliations

1: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
2: Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
3: African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
4: Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana.
5: MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
6: Department of Pathology and Medical Sciences, School of Health Care Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa.
7: Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante, Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Nanoro, Burkina Faso.
8: Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; School of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
9: Physical Activity Epidemiology Laboratory (EDST), School of Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa.
10: MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
11: Department of Chemical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
12: INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana; School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Njala University, Njala, Sierra Leone.
13: Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Electronic address: michele.ramsay@wits.ac.za.

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