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Study flowchart. Patients with hypertension who had used at least one anti-hypertensive drug were sorted into the Helicobacter pylori treatment cohort or nontreatment cohort. Patients in the H. pylori treatment cohort were matched with those in the nontreatment cohort at the ratio of 1 to 2 by using simple random sampling without replacement.
