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Comment
. 2018 Oct;23(5):189-190.
doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2018-110934. Epub 2018 May 24.

Blood pressure-lowering treatment lowers mortality and cardiovascular disease risk, but whether effects differ at an arbitrary threshold of 140 mm Hg systolic blood pressure requires further research

Dexter Canoy  1 , Kazem Rahimi  1
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Blood pressure-lowering treatment lowers mortality and cardiovascular disease risk, but whether effects differ at an arbitrary threshold of 140 mm Hg systolic blood pressure requires further research

Dexter Canoy et al. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2018 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: clinical trials; hypertension; preventive medicine; primary care.

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