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Problems of Hypertension in the Asian-Pacific Area

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Epidemiology of Arterial Blood Pressure

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 8))

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Four years ago when I reviewed the state of art on hypertension in the Asian-Pacific area at the sixth Asian-Pacific Congress of Cardiology, Honolulu, the paucity of the information in many countries struck me, but small buds of research activities, observed here and there at that time[l], have been growing rapidly. The purpose of this paper is to introduce some of this research which, although still in a preliminary stage, has much research potential, and to indicate problems for future investigations.

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Hatano, S. (1980). Problems of Hypertension in the Asian-Pacific Area. In: Kesteloot, H., Joossens, J.V. (eds) Epidemiology of Arterial Blood Pressure. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8893-4_29

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