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Prescription status of diuretics for essential hypertension in a Japanese population

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Taku Obara received a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19K07213) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

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  1. Department of Pharmacy, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital 1-12-1, Fukumuro, Miyagino-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Daisuke Kikuchi, Misato Ito, Misaki Tokunaga, Kota Sasaki, Ryosuke Miura, Hiroyuki Hirakawa, Yuko Saito & Yoshiteru Watanabe

  2. Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine 2-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Taku Obara

  3. Division of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization 2-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Taku Obara

  4. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University Hospital 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Taku Obara

  5. Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University 4-4-1, Komatsushima, Aobaku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Yoshiteru Watanabe

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Kikuchi, D., Ito, M., Tokunaga, M. et al. Prescription status of diuretics for essential hypertension in a Japanese population. Hypertens Res 44, 1359–1361 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41440-021-00688-0

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