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Recommendations on screening for high blood pressure in Canadian adults

Patrice Lindsay, Sarah Connor Gorber, Michel Joffres, Richard Birtwhistle, Donald McKay and Lyne Cloutier
Canadian Family Physician September 2013; 59 (9) 927-933;
Patrice Lindsay
Director of Best Practices and Performance at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
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vol. 59 no. 9 927-933
PubMed 
24029505

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The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Print ISSN 
0008-350X
Online ISSN 
1715-5258
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  • Published online September 12, 2013.

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  1. Patrice Lindsay, PhD
  1. Director of Best Practices and Performance at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
  1. Sarah Connor Gorber, PhD
  1. Scientific Advisor in the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
  1. Michel Joffres, MD MPH PhD
  1. Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC.
  1. Richard Birtwhistle, MD MSc CCFP FCFP⇑
  1. Professor in the departments of family medicine and public health sciences at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont, and Vice Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
  1. Correspondence: Dr Richard Birtwhistle, Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, 220 Bagot St, Kingston, ON K7L 5E9; telephone 613 533-9303, extension 73934; fax 613 533-9302; e-mail richard.birtwhistle{at}dfm.queensu.ca
  1. Donald McKay, PhD
  1. Professor of Physiology in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John’s, Nfld.
  1. Lyne Cloutier, RN PhD
  1. Professor in the Department of Nursing at the Université du Québec in Trois-Rivières.
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