Panethnic Differences in Blood Pressure in Europe: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

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Published in PLoS One on January 25, 2016

Authors

Pietro Amedeo Modesti1, Gianpaolo Reboldi2, Francesco P Cappuccio3, Charles Agyemang4, Giuseppe Remuzzi5, Stefano Rapi1, Eleonora Perruolo1, Gianfranco Parati6, ESH Working Group on CV Risk in Low Resource Settings

Author Affiliations

1: Dept of Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
2: Dept of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
3: University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, and University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, United Kingdom.
4: Dept of Public Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
5: IRCCS - Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Bergamo, Dept. of Medicine, Unit of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
6: Dept of Health Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Dept. of Cardiology, S. Luca Hospital, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico, Milano, Italy.

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