Survival in treated hypertension: follow up study after two decades
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Survival in treated hypertension: follow up study after two decades.
OBJECTIVE To compare survival and cause specific mortality in hypertensive men with non-hypertensive men derived from the same random population, and to study mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular diseases in the hypertensive men in relation to effects on cardiovascular risk factors during 22-23 years of follow up. DESIGN Prospective, population based observational study. SUBJECTS AND...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.317.7152.167