more aggressive treatment of systolic hypertension

June 2000

The NIH is now urging more aggressive treatment of systolic hypertension.

The focus used to be on diastolic BP...increasing systolic BP used to be considered an inevitable consequence of aging.

But now we know that SYSTOLIC BP is a better indicator of cardiovascular risk in middle-aged and older patients.

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