Blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors among treated hypertensives in Swedish primary health care
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0281-3432,1502-7724
DOI: 10.1080/028134302321004881