Intensive cholesterol reduction lowers blood pressure and large artery stiffness in isolated systolic hypertension
- 11 March 2002
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Vol. 39 (6), 1020-1025
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0735-1097(02)01717-5
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