The Burden of Blood Pressure-Related Disease
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Global burden of blood-pressure-related disease, 2001.
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.107.095497