2005
E. Berry et al., Guest Editors
Published in Journal of Human Hypertension 2005; 19(3):1-33
The authors quantified and ranked the contributions of overweight, physical inactivity, alcohol, coffee and other dietary factors to the prevalence of hypertension in Finland, Italy, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and USA. Distributions of blood pressure and risk factors in Western populations were obtained from nation-wide surveys. Blood pressure estimates for every risk factor were obtained by metaregression analysis of randomised trials.
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