Referral of Women to Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
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Referral of women to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.
Referral of Women to Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring To the Editor: We are intrigued by several issues reported by Boggia et al1 and raised in the accompanying editorial commentary.2 First, the IDACO (International Database on Ambulatory blood pressure in relation to Cardiovascular Outcomes) investigators confirm and generalize the chief observation from our published report on a smaller (...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.111.172759