Long-term aspects on essential hypertension.
Hypertension has been found to imply a disease entity since the beginning of this century. Effective treatment available in the last two decades has changed the outlook remarkably, especially in malignant hypertension. There are more and more evidence that less severe forms of hypertension will benefit from keeping the blood pressure under control.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality*; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors