Should we perform an echocardiogram in hypertensive patients classified as having low and medium risk?
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in International Journal of Cardiology
- Vol. 106 (1) , 41-46
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2004.12.076
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