Journal article
Bending the blood pressure curve down: are we succeeding?
- Abstract:
- Until just a few decades ago, raised blood pressure was regarded as a benign and natural process of ageing that did not warrant treatment. In the 1966 edition of his textbook Diseases of the Heart,1 the cardiologist Charles Friedberg noted that treatment of individuals with a blood pressure lower than 200/100 mm Hg was not indicated. Since then, the accumulation of a large body of evidence on raised blood pressure has fundamentally changed clinical practice and health policy worldwide. Large-scale epidemiological studies2 have proven beyond doubt that long-term exposure to raised blood pressure is associated with a substantially increased risk of cardiovascular disease, with no apparent benign range at any age.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32167-5
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Lancet More from this journal
- Volume:
- 389
- Issue:
- 10064
- Pages:
- 3-4
- Publication date:
- 2016-11-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-06
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1474-547X
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0140-6736
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pubs:648338
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- © 2016 Rahimi
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article published under a Creative Commons Licence, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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