Chronotherapy of hypertension, asleep ambulatory blood pressure, and glaucoma.

Eur Heart J

Bioengineering & Chronobiology Laboratories, Atlantic Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (AtlantTIC), University of Vigo, Campus Universitario, Vigo 36310, Spain.

Published: April 2020

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