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Using mobile phone networks to help beat hypertension

8 August 2015 by Alan

Hypertension

Lifestyle-related diseases are on the rise in South Africa, including high blood pressure. An ingenious partnership involving Oxford University is putting the nation’s extensive mobile phone network to work in beating the disease.

Full Article: Research Office – Using mobile phone networks to help beat hypertension –

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