Article
Tight versus standard blood pressure control on the incidence of myocardial infarction and stroke: An observational retrospective cohort study in the general ambulatory setting
2020-05-18
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: The 2017 American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guideline defined hypertension as blood pressure (BP) ≥ 130/80 mmHg compared to the traditional definition of ≥ 140/90 mmHg. This change raised much controversy. We conducted this study to compare the impact of tight (TBPC) versus standard BP control (SBPC) on the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ade16d60-8e14-5a29-b3d9-8cde301c63ec
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.18073/v4
