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Background: Hypertension (silent killer) is a modern day’s epidemic and is becoming a public
health emergency worldwide, due to its role in causation of coronary heart disease, stroke and
other vascular complications (Prabhu, 2017). Many researchers have revealed that hypertension
is rapidly becoming public health problem in both economically developed and developing
countries (Kishore, 2016) and it is the leading cause of mortality in the world and is ranked third
as a cause of disability adjusted life years (Ismail,2013). In Rwanda up on population-based
estimates with hypertension and overall prevalence of hypertension in Rwanda was 15.4 %
(Nahimana, 2017) |
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