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Measuring arterial stiffness in clinical practice: Moving one step forward
Hao-Min Cheng1,2,3,4, Chen-Huan Chen1,2,4
1Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)
|September 24, 2020
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