Racial differences in sudden cardiac death among hypertensive patients during antihypertensive therapy: the LIFE study.

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Published in Heart Rhythm on November 09, 2011

Authors

Peter M Okin1, Sverre E Kjeldsen, Stevo Julius, Björn Dahlöf, Richard B Devereux

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York 10065, USA. pokin@med.cornell.edu

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