Prognostic value of systolic and diastolic blood pressure in treated hypertensive men

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 577-581

  Benetos, Athanase ^a,b   Thomas, Frédérique ^a   Bean, Kathryn ^a   Gautier, Sylvie ^a,b   Smulyan, Harold ^c   Guize, Louis ^a  

^a Centre d'Investigations Preventives et Cliniques   (France)

^b Institut de la Santé et   (France)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FRANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0036190493     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.162.5.577     Document Type: Article

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