Pestilent relationship between smoking and hypertension or pulse pressure among males over 15 years in India: NFHS-5 Survey

• Dhruvendra Lal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dhruvendra Lal, Amrit Kaur Virk, Anu Bhardwaj, Kavisha Kapoor Lal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Dr B R Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Mohali, Punjab, India

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• Amrit Kaur Virk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dhruvendra Lal, Amrit Kaur Virk, Anu Bhardwaj, Kavisha Kapoor Lal

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Dr B R Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Mohali, Punjab, India

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• Anu Bhardwaj ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dhruvendra Lal, Amrit Kaur Virk, Anu Bhardwaj, Kavisha Kapoor Lal

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Dr B R Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Mohali, Punjab, India

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• Kavisha Kapoor Lal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dhruvendra Lal, Amrit Kaur Virk, Anu Bhardwaj, Kavisha Kapoor Lal

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Periodontics, Himachal Dental College, Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh, India

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• Jayanta Bora ,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JB, AN and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Founding & Executive Director, VART Consulting Pvt. Ltd, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, India

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• Anuradha Nadda ,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JB, AN and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Dr B R Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Mohali, Punjab, India

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• Sonu Goel

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sonu.goel@ul.ie

  ¶‡ JB, AN and SG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Medicine and Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-7083

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