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black South Africans
Beta-blockers are effective hypotensive agents in Caucasians. In a double-blind cross-over trial on 18 hypertensive Jamaicans, however, Humphreys and Delvin found no significant difference between propranolol and an inert placebo.2 This was not confirmed by Grell in an open study of the drug.3 I reported control of blood pressure with propranolol in eight out of 12 Indians and only four out of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ageing and Society
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0144-686X,1469-1779
DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x00003652