Population
1795 adult men and women with hypertension referred to a community-based hypertension clinic in Milwaukee
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Higher BMI links to mild diastolic elevation without overall BP correlation; hypothesis-generating for obesity phenotypes in untreated patients.
The study confirms a high prevalence of overweight and obesity among hypertensive patients, noting that obese hypertensives frequently present with relatively mild diastolic pressure elevations.
Velasquez et al. (1985) studied this question.
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