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Frail Patients Also Benefit From Intensive BP Lowering: SPRINT Analysis

Patients with frailty derive the same benefits from intensive blood-pressure lowering as those who are not frail, suggests a post hoc analysis of the SPRINT trial. Frailty didn’t significantly ...
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Intensive BP lowering confers mortality benefit in Asian cohort

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A systolic BP target of less than 120 mm Hg reduced CV and all-cause mortality among Asian patients. Compared ...
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CV benefit of intensive BP lowering may be associated with air pollution exposure

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Exposure to ambient particulate matter less than 2.5 µm may affect CV benefits from intensive BP lowering, ...
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Trial Points to Possible Benefit of Intensive BP-Lowering to Stave Off Recurrent Stroke

Controlling blood pressure to below 120/80 mm Hg in patients who have had a stroke may help prevent another event, a Japanese trial suggests. Through an average follow-up of nearly 4 years, recurrent ...