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Editorial
. 2021 Aug;44(8):1037-1039.
doi: 10.1038/s41440-021-00666-6. Epub 2021 May 12.

Why we need a single independent international hypertension clinical practice guideline

Mohamed Ben-Eltriki  1   2   3 , Alan Cassels  1   2 , Juan Erviti  1   2   3 , James M Wright  4   5   6   7
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Editorial

Why we need a single independent international hypertension clinical practice guideline

Mohamed Ben-Eltriki et al. Hypertens Res. 2021 Aug.
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Conflict of interest statement

All authors are members of the Cochrane Hypertension Review Group and Therapeutics Initiative at the University of British Columbia, Canada. The work was supported by a grant provided to the Therapeutics Initiative by the Ministry of Health of British Columbia. This funding source had no role in the opinions provided in this manuscript.

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