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Comment
. 2019 Mar;21(3):434.
doi: 10.1111/jch.13488. Epub 2019 Feb 4.

The 2017 ACC/AHA Hypertension Guidelines: Should they have included proven nonpharmacological blood pressure-lowering strategies such as Transcendental Meditation?

Robert H Schneider  1 , Jeremy Z Fields  2 , Robert D Brook  3
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The 2017 ACC/AHA Hypertension Guidelines: Should they have included proven nonpharmacological blood pressure-lowering strategies such as Transcendental Meditation?

Robert H Schneider et al. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2019 Mar.
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