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Age and physiologic considerations for the associations among height components, blood pressure, and pulse wave
Aayush Visaria1,2, David Lo2, Pranay Maniar2,3
1Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)
|September 17, 2020
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