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Adolescent blood pressure in a cohort study of sickle cell disease.
Archives of internal medicine - 24 May 1993
Homi J, Homi-Levee L, Gentles S, Thomas P, Serjeant G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Previous studies on low blood pressure in patients with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease have sought new hypotheses on the mechanism of low blood pressure but have not analyzed the role of known determinants such as weight. METHODS: Blood pressure has been measured by an automated oscillometric method in 220 patients with SS disease, 144 with sickle cell-hemoglobin C disease (both groups aged, 9.5...
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