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Failure to decrease blood pressure during sleep: non-dippers are among us

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Steendijk, P. Failure to decrease blood pressure during sleep: non-dippers are among us. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 22, 167–169 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-005-9023-1

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