Effects of intensive blood-pressure lowering and low-dose aspirin in patients with hypertension: principal results of the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) randomised trial. HOT Study Group.

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Published in Lancet on June 13, 1998

Authors

L Hansson1, A Zanchetti, S G Carruthers, B Dahlöf, D Elmfeldt, S Julius, J Ménard, K H Rahn, H Wedel, S Westerling

Author Affiliations

1: University of Uppsala, Department of Public Health and Social Sciences, Clinical Hypertension Research, Sweden.

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