Patients with resistant hypertension have more peripheral arterial disease than other uncontrolled hypertensives
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Hypertension
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0950-9240,1476-5527
DOI: 10.1038/jhh.2014.65