Low blood pressure in psychiatric inpatients.
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Low blood pressure in psychiatric inpatients.
Blood pressure recordings in 116 female psychiatric inpatients were analysed. Sixty-nine women had schizophrenia, the remainder a variety of psychiatric conditions. All had been in hospital continuously for more than one year, the average for 19 years continuously. An average of seven recordings of blood pressure per patient had been made during that time. The latest of these compared well with...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1981
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.45.4.442