Mortality among patients with hypertension from 1995 to 2005: A population-based study

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 178, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1436-1440

  Tu, Karen ^a,b   Chen, Zhongliang ^a   Lipscombe, Lorraine L ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 44649172547     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.080096     Document Type: Article

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