The explosion of morbidity and mortality trials in hypertension.
The highlights of each generation of hypertension trials have been varied, but interrelated. The initial hypertension trials focused on middle-aged hypertensive individuals and later on the elderly, with emphasis on diastolic blood pressure and subsequently on systolic blood pressure. Past generations of trials elucidated whether and whom to treat. The current explosion of morbidity and mortality trials in hypertension largely seeks to learn what drugs should be used and to delineate what blood pressure goals should be targeted.
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Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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