Incorporating easily assessable clinical and psychosocial variables, such as marital status in women, significantly improves the prediction of progression from prehypertension to hypertension compared to blood pressure measures alone.
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May refine prehypertension risk stratification; leaves open whether model-guided interventions improve outcomes.
Bozorgmanesh et al. (2013) studied this question.
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