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Myocardial infarction remains the most common cause of death in patients with essential hypertension, highlighting the need to study their epidemiological and pathological interface.
Highlights the critical interface between hypertension and ischemic heart disease, emphasizing the need for comprehensive epidemiological and pathological study to reduce mortality.
MI remains leading cause of death in essential hypertension; leaves open targeted epidemiological-pathological studies before practice implications.
Myocardial infarction remains the single most common cause of death in patients with essential hypertension. This becomes particularly evident when the hypertension is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy. To combat the continuing high mortality from myocardial infarction in hypertensive heart disease, however, all aspects of the relationship must be studied. Thus, addressing the interface from an epidemiological standpoint as well as from a pathological point is critical and progress in these areas as well as in areas of management are ultimately likely to lead to a fall in morbidity and mortality from ischemic heart disease in patients with hypertension.
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Pell et al. (1995) conducted a review in Hypertension and ischemic heart disease. Myocardial infarction remains the most common cause of death in patients with essential hypertension, highlighting the need to study their epidemiological and pathological interface.
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