Low diastolic ambulatory blood pressure is associated with greater all-cause mortality in older patients with hypertension.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on February 01, 2009

Authors

Andrea Ungar1, Giuseppe Pepe, Lorella Lambertucci, Angela Fedeli, Matteo Monami, Edoardo Mannucci, Luciano Gabbani, Giulio Masotti, Niccolò Marchionni, Mauro Di Bari

Author Affiliations

1: University of Florence, Italy. aungar@unifi.it

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