Prevalence and correlates of multiple organ damage in referred treated hypertensives: data from the ETODH study.
This study, carried out in a large cohort of treated essential hypertensives attending an out-patient hospital hypertension clinic, extends previous observations by showing that a clustering of two or three markers of organ damage (OD) has a higher prevalence than a single organ involvement. These findings call for a systematic evaluation of cardiac and extracardiac OD in treated hypertensive patients referred to a specialist setting.
Clinical Research Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine and Prevention, University of Milano-Bicocca and Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy. cesare.cuspidi@unimib.it
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult