Between 1979 and 1984 two major hypertension intervention studies involving 14,000
patients have demonstrated convincing evidence for the effectiveness of blood pressure …

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the main cause of death in most developed countries. It
had been hoped that control of raised blood pressure would make a major impact on the …

In 1931 a British physician named Hay stated that" the greatest dangerto a man with high
blood pressure lies in its discovery because then some fool is certain to try and reduce …

The bulk of the mortality (60%) in hypertension occurs in those with mild to moderate
elevations of blood pressure, and the chief hazard is coronary disease. Although …

Abstract Heyden S (Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University
Medical Centre, Durham, MC 27710, USA), Schneider KA and Fodor G J. Coronary heart …

Three hundred and eighty-nine subjects, ages 21-55, with diastolic blood pressures
between 90 and 115 mm Hg were studied prospectively for 7-10 years in a controlled …

The increasing tendency to treat hypertension has markedly reduced stroke mortality but has
not significantly reduced the mortality from coronary heart disease. Many explanations for …

Relatively few observational (ie, nonexperimental) studies have been conducted to examine
the role of antihypertensive drug therapy in the primary prevention of coronary heart …

The major risk factors for coronary disease are blood pressure, blood lipids and cigarette
smoking. Major advances have been made over the past 20 years in altering these factors …

Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality increase as a function of blood pressure, but
antihypertensive treatment reduces the rate of both events, thereby representing a …