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Blood Pressure Control and Levels of -Glutamyl Transferasen-Reply

Richard N. Winickoff, MD
West Roxbury, Mass

Arch Intern Med. 1988;148(5):1230.

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In Reply.

—Please accept my apologies for the error that appeared in our article in the August issue of the ARCHIVES.¹

Your article is one of the most important publications bearing on the issue of alcohol intake and blood pressure control, and I regret the mistake concerning its country of origin.

I was interested in the contents of your letter bearing on the value of close follow-up of patients with both alcoholism and hypertension.

We are embarking on a study of our hypertensive population in an attempt to gauge the contribution of alcohol intake to poor control in United States veterans followed up at a Veterans Administration Medical Center. I suspect alcohol intake will be a major contributing factor. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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