Hypertension management: Time to shift gears and scale up national efforts

Hypertension

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 450-451

  Mohan, Sailesh ^a   Campbell, Norm R C ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^b Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MORTALITY; NOTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SALT INTAKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 61749100067     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.108.127076     Document Type: Note

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