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Hypertension is not a disease of the left arm: a difficult diagnosis of hypertension in Takayasu’s arteritis

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Hypertension and its cause may be missed by failure to measure blood pressure in both arms. We report a case of Takayasu’s arteritis where diagnostic confusion arose because there was a failure to detect a difference in blood pressure between the arms.

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Banks, M., Erb, N., George, P. et al. Hypertension is not a disease of the left arm: a difficult diagnosis of hypertension in Takayasu’s arteritis. J Hum Hypertens 15, 573–575 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jhh.1001247

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