Population
10,462 subjects from a national survey in Argentina and 636 consecutive hypertensive patients aged 25 to 74…
Design
Cross-sectional
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SBP may better indicate age-related vascular resistance and compliance shifts than DBP; leaves open prospective outcome trials before practice change.
Systolic blood pressure, rather than diastolic blood pressure, is a more reliable indicator of underlying age-related hemodynamic abnormalities such as high vascular resistance and low arterial compliance in the elderly.
Galarza et al. (1997) studied this question.
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