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Quality of Life in Hypertensive Clinic Patients Following Hurricane Katrina

Erin Stanley, Paul Muntner, Richard N. Re, Edward D. Frohlich, Elizabeth Holt and Marie A. Krousel-Wood
Ochsner Journal September 2011, 11 (3) 226-231;

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