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Therapeutic decisions in mild hypertension: an introductory overview

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This introductory overview of mild hypertension will deal with the related issues of whom to treat and how to treat. Intervention trials have not so far given clear guidelines for the effective treatment of mild hypertension. Perhaps these studies have been flawed by the nature of their design; they have tried to achieve the combined goal of statistical validity and wide applicability in diverse groups of hypertensive patients. Moreover, the risk factor concept involves a statement of group probability so that some patients at low risk develop cardiovascular complications and others at high risk do not.

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  1. University of California at Los Angeles, USA

    Stanley S. Franklin M. D. (Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of Hypertension)

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  1. Hypertension Center, Veterans Administration Center, 5901 East 7th Street, Long Beach, California, 90822, USA

    M. A. Weber

  2. Medical Unit, St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Norfolk Place, London, W2 1PG, Great Britain

    C. J. Mathias M. B., B. S., D. Phil., M. R. C. P. (Senior Wellcome Fellow in Clinical Science, Honorary Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Medicine) (Senior Wellcome Fellow in Clinical Science, Honorary Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Medicine)

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Franklin, S.S. (1984). Therapeutic decisions in mild hypertension: an introductory overview. In: Weber, M.A., Mathias, C.J. (eds) Mild hypertension. Steinkopff. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87506-9_7

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