Global Update: Blood Pressure Is Most Lethal in Poor and Middle-Income Countries
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 15:49
in Health & Medicine
A new study has found that about 80 percent of the world’s deaths from high blood pressure occur in poor and middle-income countries.
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