Why is blood pressure control unsatisfactory - Or is it?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1547-1550

  Hense, Hans Werner ^a   Maziak, Wasim ^a   Heidrich, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANOMETRY; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RISK FACTORS; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0036713252     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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