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Hypertension is the leading risk factor for congestive heart failure, indicating that aggressive blood pressure control can significantly reduce CHF incidence and mortality.
Earlier and more aggressive blood pressure control offers significant promise for reducing the incidence of congestive heart failure and its associated mortality.
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May support earlier BP control to reduce heart failure; extends associations but leaves causality open pending trials.
- Hypertension was the most common risk factor for CHF, and it contributed a large proportion of heart failure cases in this population-based sample. Preventive strategies directed toward earlier and more aggressive blood pressure control are likely to offer the greatest promise for reducing the incidence of CHF and its associated mortality.
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Daniel Levy (1996) studied this question. Hypertension is the leading risk factor for congestive heart failure, indicating that aggressive blood pressure control can significantly reduce CHF incidence and mortality.
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