Prehypertension Revisited
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Prehypertension revisited.
The Seventh Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of Hypertension (JNC-7) introduced the term “prehypertension” to designate individuals whose systolic blood pressure (BP) levels are in the range of 120 to 139 mm Hg and diastolic BP between 80 and 89 mm Hg.1,2 The decision to establish this new BP category was based on a number of factors. Several studi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hypertension
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0194-911X,1524-4563
DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000241684.29799.14