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The measurement of diastolic blood pressure in children: K4 or K5? What the journals do

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Griffiths, S., Beevers, D. The measurement of diastolic blood pressure in children: K4 or K5? What the journals do. J Hum Hypertens 15, 747–748 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1001250

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