Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring to Assess Cardiovascular Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa

Richard W Walker^{1

2}, Matthew Dewhurst^{1

2}, William K Gray¹

Affiliations

¹ Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields, UK.
² Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK.

Comment

Richard W Walker et al. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2015 Oct.

. 2015 Oct;17(10):811.

doi: 10.1111/jch.12582. Epub 2015 May 23.

Richard W Walker^{1

2}, Matthew Dewhurst^{1

2}, William K Gray¹

¹ Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields, UK.
² Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, UK.

No abstract available

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