Is vascular morning blood pressure surge in the elderly resistant to antihypertensives and more risky?
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Silent and Clinical Cerebrovascular Disease in Elderly Hypertensives To the Editor: We read with interest the paper by Kario et al,1 indicating that an excessive morning surge in blood pressure is a predictor of subsequent stroke in a sample population of elderly Japanese hypertensives. On one hand, the evident diurnal variation in the onset of many acute cardiovascular events, eg, myocardial i...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Hypertension
دوره 60 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012