The prevalence of chronic diseases and major disease risk factors at different ages among 150 000 men and women living in Mexico City: cross-sectional analyses of a prospective study
Open Access
- 9 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 9 (1) , 9
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-9
Abstract
While most of the global burden from chronic diseases, and especially vascular diseases, is now borne by low and middle-income countries, few large-scale epidemiological studies of chronic diseases in such countries have been performed.Keywords
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