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New Hypertension Advisory.
A new advisory statement from the National High Blood Pressure Education Program is urging physicians to manage middle-aged hypertensive patients with a KISS: Keep It Simply Systolic.
The new recommendations insist that control of systolic pressure after age 50 should be the principal focus in reducing cardiovascular risk and will result in many other benefits, Dr. Joseph Izzo Jr., a member of the coordinating committee that issued the new statement, said at a meeting sponsored by the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks in Las Croabas, P.R.
The recommendations make life easier for clinicians by directing all attention and effort to a single target endpoint. "We will prevent a lot of target organ damage if we stay below 140," said Dr. Izzo of the State ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, New Hypertension Advisory.