TY - JOUR
T1 - Blood Pressure Reduction and Cardiovascular Outcomes
T2 - Past, Present, and Future
AU - Mancia, Giuseppe
PY - 2007/8/6
Y1 - 2007/8/6
N2 - Hypertension has not always been recognized as a harbinger of cardiovascular complications and premature death. Only 70 years ago, hypertension was considered the body's adaptation to sclerotic blood vessel disease and essential to maintain organ perfusion; thus, treatment was regarded as undesirable. Epidemiologic studies have since established a strong linear relation between blood pressure and cardiovascular disease (CVD), and randomized trials have documented that blood pressure reductions by antihypertensive drugs confer cardiovascular protection, making the hypertension-related risk a reversible risk. There is now a consensus that blood pressure should be reduced to
AB - Hypertension has not always been recognized as a harbinger of cardiovascular complications and premature death. Only 70 years ago, hypertension was considered the body's adaptation to sclerotic blood vessel disease and essential to maintain organ perfusion; thus, treatment was regarded as undesirable. Epidemiologic studies have since established a strong linear relation between blood pressure and cardiovascular disease (CVD), and randomized trials have documented that blood pressure reductions by antihypertensive drugs confer cardiovascular protection, making the hypertension-related risk a reversible risk. There is now a consensus that blood pressure should be reduced to
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.05.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 17666195
AN - SCOPUS:34547119307
VL - 100
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
SN - 0002-9149
IS - 3 SUPPL.
ER -