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Research Article

Gender Disparities in the Awareness and Control of Hypertension

Abdulkareem AlsuwaidaDepartment of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mohammed AlghonaimDepartment of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Pages 354-357 | Received 03 Jul 2010, Accepted 04 Aug 2010, Published online: 02 May 2011

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