Management of Mild Hypertension. Selecting an Antihypertensive Regimen

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Journal West J Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1991 Jan 1

PMID 2024512

Citations 2

Authors

E J Perez-Stable

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Abstract

This discussion was selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from a transcription, it has been edited by Homer A. Boushey, MD, Professor of Medicine, and Nathan M. Bass, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, under the direction of Lloyd H. Smith, Jr, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean in the School of Medicine.

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