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Age- and Blood Pressure-Dependent Form Factors: Reevaluating Arterial Waveforms and Blood Pressure Assessment
Yung-Te Chen1, Hao-Min Cheng2,3,4,5
1Department of Internal Medicine Taipei Veterans General Hospital Taipei Taiwan.
Journal of the American Heart Association
|March 13, 2025
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