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Haptoglobin Phenotype and Cardiovascular Risk: The ACCORD Blood Pressure RCT.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Jan 2026
Lavallée Samantha K, Carew Allie S, Warren Rachel A, Sapp John L, Levy Andrew P, Andreou Pantelis, Herman Christine R, Rimm Eric B, Cahill Leah E
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BACKGROUND: A relationship between hypertension and risk of incident cardiovascular disease, coronary artery disease, and stroke is widely reported in type 2 diabetes. However, trials testing intensive blood pressure control therapy versus standard therapy to reduce cardiovascular events have reported conflicting results, which could potentially be due to an unmeasured biological factor such as the common Hp...
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