2. Patient Adherence and Fixed Combination of Antihypertensive Drugs.
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Poor adherence to antihypertensive drugs.
In this 10-minute consultation by Mohammed Awais Hameed and colleagues (BMJ 2016;354:i3268, doi:10.1136/bmj.i3268), the final sentence of the first paragraph under the heading “Discuss risk” should not have read: “For example, ‘In a population of 100 people aged 40-69, with every 2 mm Hg rise in blood pressure, 10 people are at risk of dying from a stroke and seven people are at a risk of dying...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0021-5384,1883-2083
DOI: 10.2169/naika.100.426