Physical inactivity has become a public health problem all over the world. Almost 3.2 million deaths each year around the globe are attributable to insufficient physical activity. The recent high level of Hypertension incidence is held to be partly due to inadequate participation in physical activity during leisure time and an increase in sedentary behavior during occupational and domestic activities (WHO, 2013). The present study therefore seeks to find out the effect of sedentary work on incidence of hypertension through the lens of female traders at the Makola market in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Convenient non-random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 50 market wom
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