Cardiovascular response in black and white hypertensives.
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Cardiovascular response in black and white hypertensives.
Sixteen untreated black patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension and no evidence of target organ damage were matched for age, sex, casual blood pressure (BP), and socioeconomic status with 16 white hypertensives. All patients were studied under standardized conditions in the hospital where they underwent continuous intraarterial ambulatory monitoring of BP and assessment of BP control mechan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.4.6.817