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. 2018 Feb;20(2):208-211.
doi: 10.1111/jch.13195. Epub 2018 Jan 25.

Saving 100 million lives by improving global treatment of hypertension and reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors

Thomas R Frieden  1 , Marc G Jaffe  1   2
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Saving 100 million lives by improving global treatment of hypertension and reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors

Thomas R Frieden et al. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2018 Feb.
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