Commentary on epidemiological studies and intervention trials.
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Commentary on epidemiological studies and intervention trials.
Epidemiological studies have proved invaluable for identifying environmental risk factors and gene-environment interactions in the development of hypertension and other chronic diseases. Now, after several decades, the solid contributions of longitudinal and cross-national studies of random population samples are well established. The art and science of clinical trials have achieved a high leve...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.17.1_suppl.i34