Growing Burden of Hypertension in China: Causes, Challenges, and Opportunities

Affiliations

¹ Human Nutrition Department, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Qatar.
² Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
³ Center for Advancing Population Science, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Zumin Shi et al. China CDC Wkly. 2020.

. 2020 Oct 2;2(40):776-779.

doi: 10.46234/ccdcw2020.210.

¹ Human Nutrition Department, College of Health Sciences, QU Health, Qatar University, Qatar.
² Global Health Institute, School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
³ Center for Advancing Population Science, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.

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