Editorials: Rethinking "abnormal" blood pressure: What is the value?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 678-680

  Smetana, Gerald W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COST OF ILLNESS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADULT; AGED; DIASTOLE; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; DIASTOLE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; SYSTOLE;

EID: 80051550661     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1737-2     Document Type: Editorial

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