Effects of Intensive Blood Pressure Lowering on Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend intensive blood pressure (BP) lowering in patients at high risk. While placebo-controlled trials have demonstrated 22% reductions in coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke associated with a 10-mmHg difference in systolic BP, it is unclear if more intensive BP loweri...

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Main Authors: Lv, Jicheng, Neal, Bruce, Ehteshami, Parya, Ninomiya, Toshiharu, Woodward, Mark, Rodgers, Anthony, Wang, Haiyan, MacMahon, Stephen, Turnbull, Fiona, Hillis, Graham, Chalmers, John, Perkovic, Vlado
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424246/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22927798
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001293
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