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General Practitioners’ vitamin K antagonist monitoring is associated with better blood pressure control in patients with hypertension – a cross-sectional database study

BACKGROUND: Patients requiring anticoagulation suffer from comorbidities such as hypertension. On the occasion of INR monitoring, general practitioners (GPs) have the opportunity to control for blood pressure (BP). We aimed to evaluate the impact of Vitamin-K Antagonist (VKA) monitoring by GPs on BP...

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Autores principales: Streit, Sven, Kaplan, Vladimir, Busato, André, Djalali, Sima, Senn, Oliver, Meli, Damian N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4461926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26058350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-015-0053-x