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High Blood Pressure: Its Care and Consequences in Urban Centres
1234 Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 21201, U.S.A.
4 Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 21201, U.S.A.
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The results of a special secondary prevention programme for hypertension were compared to those of usual medical care available to patients with high blood pressure. The special programme was carried out at a time when hypertension information was being disseminated rapidly. The investigators describe the magnitude of the problem in a central city area and develop a method of evaluation for each of the serial activities directed at its control in a community.
Received 16 August 1973