Is treating Blood pressure alone enough to protect your
Is treating Blood pressure alone enough to protect your
Is treating Blood pressure alone enough to protect your
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Circulating oxidized LDL and<br />
Hypertension<br />
80<br />
70 Hypertensive<br />
60<br />
men had 62%<br />
50<br />
higher mean<br />
40<br />
Ox LDL levels<br />
30<br />
compared with<br />
20 normotensive<br />
controls<br />
10<br />
0<br />
Normotensive<br />
Subjects<br />
Borderline Hypertensive<br />
Subjects<br />
Toikka JO. Hypertension 2000; 36: 929-33<br />
<strong>Is</strong> <strong>treating</strong> <strong>Blood</strong> <strong>pressure</strong> <strong>alone</strong> <strong>enough</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>protect</strong> <strong>your</strong><br />
hypertensive patient?<br />
Does the elevation of blood <strong>pressure</strong> increase the atherogenecity<br />
of cholesterol-rich lipoproteins ?<br />
Want <strong>to</strong> go beyond blood <strong>pressure</strong> in patients with hypertension?<br />
EBM.<br />
<strong>Is</strong> it just an antihypertensive treatment + statin?<br />
Who are those hypertensive patients at high CVD risk?<br />
Conclusion.
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