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Letters to the Editor
Relation between blood pressure and mortality: is there a threshold?
a Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
b Computerization and Methodological Consultancy Unit, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
c Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
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