Community Health Workers Improve Linkage to Hypertension Care in Western Kenya

BACKGROUND: Elevated blood pressure (BP) is the leading global risk factor for mortality. Delay seeking hypertension care is associated with increased mortality. OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether community health workers, equipped with behavioral communication strategies and smartphone technology,...

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Publicat a:J Am Coll Cardiol
Autors principals: Vedanthan, Rajesh, Kamano, Jemima H., DeLong, Allison K., Naanyu, Violet, Binanay, Cynthia A., Bloomfield, Gerald S., Chrysanthopoulou, Stavroula A., Finkelstein, Eric A., Hogan, Joseph W., Horowitz, Carol R., Inui, Thomas S., Menya, Diana, Orango, Vitalis, Velazquez, Eric J., Were, Martin C., Kimaiyo, Sylvester, Fuster, Valentin
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: 2019
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6788970/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31487546
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2019.08.003
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