European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 13, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(21):2585-2586; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn451
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Gender and the response to blood pressure-lowering treatment
Haemostasis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Unit, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK
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This editorial refers to Do men and women respond differently to blood pressure-lowering treatment? Results of prospectively designed overviews of randomized trials
by F. Turnbull et al., on page 2669
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Hypertension is a global public health problem, making it one of the leading causes of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.1,2 The management of hypertension can broadly be divided into the appropriate identification and cardiovascular risk stratification and, secondly, a holistic therapeutic strategy. Given the marked benefits of treating hypertension on complications such as stroke and myocardial infarction, it is no longer a question of do we treat hypertension? but the more important questions in relation to hypertension treatment are who to treat?. ... and
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