Cost of poor blood pressure control in the UK: 62 000 unnecessary deaths per year
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- 24 June 2003
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Human Hypertension
- Vol. 17 (7), 455-457
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1001581
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