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Editorial
. 2019 Mar;73(3):543-546.
doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.12369.

Cardiometabolic Surgery for Treatment of Hypertension?

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Cardiometabolic Surgery for Treatment of Hypertension?

John E Hall et al. Hypertension. 2019 Mar.
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Rapid and chronic effects of bariatric (“cardiometabolic”) surgery to cause remission of hypertension and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in patients with obesity and some mechanisms that have been proposed. Abbreviations: SNS, sympathetic nervous system; RAAS, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system; RYGB, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass; T2D, type 2 diabetes mellitus.

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