Management of hypertension in the very old;Tratamiento de la hipertensión arterial en el paciente muy anciano

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 111-112

  Gorostidi, Manuel ^a   De La Sierra, Alejandro ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 79958116649     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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