Resting and ambulatory blood pressure differences in Afro-Caribbeans and Europeans.

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Published in Hypertension on July 01, 1993

Authors

N Chaturvedi1, P M McKeigue, M G Marmot

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1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, England.

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