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Editorial
. 2022 Aug 23;80(8):818-820.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.05.043.

Hypertension-A Silent Killer Without Global Bounds: What Next?

Yashashwi Pokharel  1 , Biraj M Karmacharya  2 , Dinesh Neupane  3
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Hypertension-A Silent Killer Without Global Bounds: What Next?

Yashashwi Pokharel et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. .
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Keywords: education; equity; global; hypertension; poverty.

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Conflict of interest statement

Funding Support and Author Disclosures Dr Neupane has received support from Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, which is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gates Philanthropy Partners, which is funded with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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  • The Association of Socioeconomic Status With Hypertension in 76 Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
    Kirschbaum TK, Sudharsanan N, Manne-Goehler J, De Neve JW, Lemp JM, Theilmann M, Marcus ME, Ebert C, Chen S, Yoosefi M, Sibai AM, Rouhifard M, Moghaddam SS, Mayige MT, Martins JS, Lunet N, Jorgensen JMA, Houehanou C, Farzadfar F, Damasceno A, Bovet P, Bahendeka SK, Aryal KK, Andall-Brereton G, Davies JI, Atun R, Vollmer S, Bärnighausen T, Jaacks LM, Geldsetzer P. Kirschbaum TK, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Aug 23;80(8):804-817. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.05.044. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022. PMID: 35981824

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