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Patients unaware of risks of high systolic reading. (Detroit-Area Study).
ATLANTA -- Most hypertensive patients don't adequately understand the risks imposed by an elevated systolic blood pressure, Susan A. Olivieria, Sc.D., said at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
She presented a Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.--sponsored telephone survey involving 683 Detroit-area patients in the Henry Ford Health System, all of whom had been diagnosed as hypertensive by their primary care physician.
Ninety-one percent of participants were aware that they'd been diagnosed with high blood pressure or ...
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