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Does hypertension increase the risk of developing clinical manifestations of coronary heart disease compared to normotension?
Does hypertension increase the risk of developing clinical manifestations of coronary heart disease compared to normotension?
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This prospective epidemiologic investigation examines the relationship between blood pressure and the development of coronary heart disease.
is well recognized that hypertensives are especially prone to clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis in general and to coronary heart disease (CHD) in particular. Prospective epidemiologic investigation of the circumstances under which CHD evolves in hypertensives compared to their more normotensive cohorts has revealed a number of misconceptions concerning the nature of the relationship of blood pressure to atherosclerotic vascular disease. This report is concerned with a detailed examination of the relationship of blood pressure to the development of the various clinical manifestations of CHD in each sex at varying ages. The blood
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Kannel et al. (1969) studied this question.
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