U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation and Pediatric Hypertension Screening: Dereliction of Duty or Call to Arms?

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 342-343

  Lo, Tiffany ^a   Malaga Dieguez, Laura ^a   Trachtman, Howard ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; NEPHROLOGIST; OBESITY; PEDIATRICIAN; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84900436476     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jch.12301     Document Type: Article

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