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INVEST: Mortality Hazard With Lowest Blood Pressures in Diabetics With CAD?
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Title INVEST: Mortality Hazard With Lowest Blood Pressures in Diabetics With CAD?
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/718468?src=rss
Description Diabetic patients whose systolic blood pressure was lowered to 130 to 140 mm Hg had a better outcome than those with systolic pressures over 140. But reductions below 130 did not appear to offer any additional benefit and had a higher mortality rate in this retrospective analysis. Heartwire
Category Articles > Cardiology
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Date Mar 15, 2010
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