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Editorial
. 2022 Jan;79(1):33-35.
doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18373. Epub 2021 Dec 8.

How Low Should You Go in the Presence of Frailty?

Michelle C Odden  1   2 , Timothy S Anderson  3
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Editorial

How Low Should You Go in the Presence of Frailty?

Michelle C Odden et al. Hypertension. 2022 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; blood pressure; frailty; mortality; phenotype; sample size.

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