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Detection of exaggerated blood pressure response using laboratory of physical science protocol and risk of future

Tsutomu Odahara1, Masataka Irokawa, Hiroshi Karasawa

  • 1Kagoshima Occupational Environmental Health Center, Toukai-cho, Kagoshima city, Kagoshima, Japan. odahara@mbr.nifty.com

Journal of Occupational Health
|August 11, 2010
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