Ginseng for Reducing the Blood Pressure in Patients with Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis |
Hur, Myung-Haeng
(School of Nursing, Eulji University)
Lee, Myeong-Soo (Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine) Yang, Hye-Jeong (Korea Food Research Institute) Kim, Chan (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Eulji University) Bae, Ik-Lyul (School of Nursing, Eulji University) Ernst, Edzard (Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter) |
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