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The sixth report of the Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood pressure

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- 01 Jan 1997 - 
- Vol. 157, pp 2413-2446
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This article is published in JAMA Internal Medicine.The article was published on 1997-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5537 citations till now.

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Validity of the JNC VI recommendations for the management of hypertension in a general population of Japanese elderly: The Hisayama study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that the recommendations of the Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure were potentially applicable to the Japanese elderly subjects 79 years or younger.
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The PREMIER Intervention Helps Participants Follow the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Dietary Pattern and the Current Dietary Reference Intakes Recommendations

TL;DR: The PREMIER study as mentioned in this paper examined the influence of lifestyle interventions on dietary intakes and adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern and the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI).
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Adverse prognostic value of a blunted circadian rhythm of heart rate in essential hypertension

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Monitoring compliance in resistant hypertension: an important step in patient management.

TL;DR: Long-acting antihypertensive drugs that provide good blood pressure control beyond the 24-h dosing period should perhaps be considered as drugs of choice in non-compliant patients with hypertension because they help to prevent the consequences of occasional drug omissions.
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Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring and Postprandial Hypotension in Elderly Persons With Falls or Syncopes

TL;DR: Patients with PPH were more likely to have a history of diabetes mellitus or to use more than three different drugs daily, and they showed greater daytime SBP variability, and there was a strong positive correlation between preprandial SBP and deltaSBP after breakfast.
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