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New Pharmacologic Therapies for Hypertension on the Horizon

George Thomas George Thomas, MD, FASN, is an associate professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and director of the American Heart Association Comprehensive Hypertension Center in the Department of Kidney Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

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