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Factors associated with hypertension among adults in Nepal as per the Joint National Committee 7 and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association hypertension guidelines: a cross-sectional analysis of the demographic and health survey 2016

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  • Rajat Das Gupta Centre for Non-Communicable Diseases and Nutrition, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Centre for Science of Implementation and Scale-Up, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sojib Bin Zaman Maternal and Child Health Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kusum Wagle Research Division, Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities, Kathmandu, Nepal Department of Public Health, Om Health Campus Pvt. Ltd, Kathmandu, Nepal PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Reese Crispen Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mohammad Rashidul Hashan Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Rajat Das Gupta; rajat89.dasgupta{at}gmail.com
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Das Gupta R, Bin Zaman S, Wagle K, et al
Factors associated with hypertension among adults in Nepal as per the Joint National Committee 7 and 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association hypertension guidelines: a cross-sectional analysis of the demographic and health survey 2016
BMJ Open 2019;9:e030206. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030206

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  • Received March 4, 2019
  • Revised June 14, 2019
  • Accepted July 5, 2019
  • First published August 10, 2019.
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August 10, 2019
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