Por: Osamu Iritani, Yumi Koizumi, Yuko Hamazaki, Hiroshi Yano, Takuro Morita, Taroh Himeno, Tazuo Okuno, Masashi Okuro, Kunimitsu Iwai y Shigeto Morimoto. Hypertension Research (2014) 37, 772–778.
A reduction of elevated blood pressure (BP) is an important treatment goal in elderly hypertensive patients. However, excessive reduction of systolic BP (SBP) and/or diastolic BP (DBP) might be harmful in such patients. We investigated whether this was the case with regard to risk of incident disability or death in community-dwelling elderly subjects.
Por: H. Takase, G. Kimura y Y. Dohi. Journal of Human Hypertension (2014) 28, 529–534.
We tested the hypothesis that uric acid levels predict new-onset hypertension in the Japanese general population. Normotensive individuals who visited our hospital for a yearly health checkup (n=8157, men=61.0% and age=50.7±12.2 years) were enrolled in the present study. After baseline evaluation, participants were followed up for a median of 48.3 months (range 4.9–101.0 months), with the endpoint being the development of hypertension, defined as systolic blood pressure (BP) greater than or equal to140?mm?Hg, diastolic BP greater than or equal to90?mm?Hg or the use of antihypertensive medication.
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