Characteristics and results of attendence of hypertensives patients in the hypertension unit of Clinical Hospital of Medicine School of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo University;Características e resultados do atendimento de pacientes na Unidade de Hipertensão do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo

Revista Brasileira de Medicina

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 694-708

  Nobre, Fernando ^a   Da Silva, Carla Patrícia ^a   Lima, Nereida K C ^a   Souza, Luciana A C ^a   Veiga, Eugênia V ^a   Nogueira, Maria S ^a   Mendes, Camila S ^a   Coelho, Ana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adherence; Follow up; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844267049     PISSN: 00347264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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