Is Hypertension changing? Blood pressure development in cohorts of 50-year-old men between 1963 and 1993

Blood Pressure

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 134-138

  Ribacke, Mats ^a,c   Tibblin, Gösta ^a   Rosengren, Annika ^b   Eriksson, Henry ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cross sectional studies; Epidemiology; Family practice; Hypertension; Knowledge attitudes practice; Practice guidelines

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030012595     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037059609062121     Document Type: Article

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