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Home Is Where the Heart Is: Call for Greater Use of Home Blood-Pressure Monitoring
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Title Home Is Where the Heart Is: Call for Greater Use of Home Blood-Pressure Monitoring
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/575151?src=rss
Description A new scientific statement calls for patients with hypertension to routinely monitor their blood pressure in their homes with a home blood-pressure monitoring device. Medscape Medical News
Category Articles > Cardiology
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Date May 29, 2008
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