Body Weight and Hypertension Risk in a Developing Country
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Keywords
Body weight; Hypertension; Causal effect; Vietnam;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2018-03-05 (Health Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2018-03-05 (South East Asia)
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