Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control in the United States, 2013 to 2018

Overview

Journal Hypertension

Date 2021 Aug 9

PMID 34365809

Citations 112

Authors

Rahul Aggarwal

Nicholas Chiu

Rishi K Wadhera

Andrew E Moran

Inbar Raber

Changyu Shen

Robert W Yeh

Dhruv S Kazi

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Abstract

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