Population
Patients under the age of 60 years with severe hypertension, including two consecutive groups of 100…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
10 years
Authors
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Should not yet change hypertension management; leaves open whether intensified myocardial infarction prevention reduces mortality in treated severe hypertension.
This historical cohort study demonstrated a 51% ten-year mortality in severe hypertension, with shifting causes of death from cerebrovascular to myocardial infarction despite hypotensive treatment.
G. E. Bauer (1972) studied this question.
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