title: A greater role for systolic pressure?
abstract: The large intervention trials on the treatment of hypertension have been based on the diastolic component of blood pressure. Recent work indicates that elevation of the systolic pressure is just as powerful in predicting stroke and heart attacks. The incidence of systolic-only hypertension in the elderly is between 5 and 20 per cent. How to approach the management of these patients is the subject of current research in the United States.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coope
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D013599:Systole