Salman Mohammadi, Soheil Hassanipour, Hamed Delam, Hossein-Ali Nikbakht, Zohreh Ghaem Far, Donya Firoozi, Elnaz Ghaem Far, Hamid Abdolazimi, Ali Ghaffarian-Bahraman
BACKGROUND: Hypertension (HTN) is one of the primary risk factors for heart disease and stroke worldwide. The present meta-analysis was aimed to systematically review and statistically estimate the prevalence rate of pre-hypertension (PHTN) and HTN in the Iranian child/adolescent and adult age groups. METHODS: In this study, four International databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Cochrane, as well as three Iranian databases, including SID, Magiran, and IranMedex, were separately investigated for articles published before January 2021...
2023: Caspian Journal of Internal Medicine