Treatment of hypertension in the prevention and management of ischemic heart disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology and Epidemiology and Prevention.

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Published in Circulation on May 14, 2007

Authors

Clive Rosendorff1, Henry R Black, Christopher P Cannon, Bernard J Gersh, Joel Gore, Joseph L Izzo, Norman M Kaplan, Christopher M O'Connor, Patrick T O'Gara, Suzanne Oparil, American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention

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1: Veterans Health Administration, USA.

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