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Assessment of Prevalence of Hypertension amongst Workers of Silk Industry in Kanchipuram District

DOI: 10.18535/ijmsci/v4i5.20· Vol. 4, No. 5, (2017)· Published: May 22, 2017
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Abstract

This cross sectional study was co nducted to explore the prevalence of hypertension, whether diagnosed or undiagnosed, amongst 104 employees of a Silk Industry in Kanchipuram District along with its association between different variables such as age, education, tobacco use, alcohol use by chi-square test and fisher exact test.

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Tarachand T. Meshram*, Kailash I Murarka
Department of Community Medicine,Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Medical Sciences,Bhilai490020, Chhattisgarh, India
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