Blood pressure targets after high-risk myocardial infarction: Is it time to update the guidelines?

Hypertension

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-27

  Denardo, Scott J ^a   Anderson, R David ^a   Pepine, Carl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; VALSARTAN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY RISK; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 37349000575     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.099291     Document Type: Editorial

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