Incidence of Hypertension-Related Emergency Department Visits in the United States, 2006 to 2012.

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Published in Am J Cardiol on September 10, 2015

Authors

Candace D McNaughton1, Wesley H Self2, Yuwei Zhu3, Alexander T Janke4, Alan B Storrow2, Phillip Levy5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee. Electronic address: candace.mcnaughton@vanderbilt.edu.
2: Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
3: Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
4: Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
5: Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan; Department of Emergency Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

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