Relaxation therapy in the background of standard antihypertensive drug treatment is effective in management of moderate to severe essential hypertension

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1353-1356

  Ranjbar, Fatemeh ^a   Akbarzadeh, Feriberz ^a   Kazemi, Babak ^a   Safaeiyan, Abdolrasoul ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38849145206     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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