A comparison of serological techniques for plague surveillance
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 78 (6) , 771-773
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(84)90014-2
Abstract
In a study of 4,993 rural Zulus the over-all prevalence of primary hypertension was 8·37% (females 8·78%, males 7·4%). The mean arterial pressure in relation to age and sex was not as high as in urban Zulus. A diastolic blood pressure of ≥ 95 mm Hg was present in 4·99% of the subjects and 1·46% had a diastolic blood pressure of ≥ 110 mm Hg. This study suggests that hypertension is not a major health problem in rural Zulus and that large case-finding and intervention programmes should be confined to the urban Black population of South Africa.Keywords
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