Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control in national surveys from England, the USA and Canada, and correlation with stroke and ischaemic heart disease mortality: a cross-sectional study
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...sure and hypertension represent major global threats to population health, with stroke and IHD being the most closely related adverse outcomes.(4) Interventions to lower...
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...Usual blood pressure is strongly and directly related to vascular and overall mortality without evidence of a threshold down to at least 115/75 mm Hg,(4) with small changes in blood pressure resulting in substantial changes in vascular disease.(5) On the basis of clinical and population research, increased blood pressure, hypertension and hypertension-related complications are largely preventable....
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