Highlights the importance of recognizing multiple risk factors for coronary heart disease in hypertensive patients to guide therapeutic approaches.
Supports multifactorial CHD risk assessment in hypertension; leaves open optimal intervention strategies.
AIM: Multiple risk factors for coronary heart disease must be considered in order to establish both the overall risk status of each hypertensive patient and the most appropriate therapeutic approach. CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND HYPERTENSION: Particular attention is required for those risk factors that are more prevalent in hypertensive patients. Guidelines for their recognition have been provided.
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Norman M. Kaplan (1995) studied this question.
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