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- 9349
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- 1903-1913
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Sarah Lewington,
Robert Clarke,
Nawab Qizilbash
et al.
(2002).
Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies.
The Lancet
, 360
(9349)
, 1903-1913.
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(02)11911-8
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- 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)11911-8