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Finally, we think this can be a very useful piece of software for practitioners,
because, to reach, for instance, the treatment of hypertension, several messy con-
catenated steps have to be taken. Practitioners can use the results in this work
to improve their clinical practice (although the patient should be forwarded to
a hypertension specialist). Moreover, specialists in the particular field of hyper-
tension can use the results generated by this expert system to compare them
with their personal opinion.
Acknowledgments
This work was partially supported by project PR3/04-12410 (Universidad Com-
plutense de Madrid, Spain).
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