Rationale and design of HOMED-BP Study: hypertension objective treatment based on measurement by electrical devices of blood pressure study.

Background: How far should blood pressure (BP) be lowered to achieve the greatest reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease? Although a few trials have tried to answer this question, they failed to convincingly establish an optimal target BP level, in part because of poor reproducibility and t...

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Published in:Blood Pressure Monitoring Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 77 - 83
Main Authors: Fujiwara, Tohru, Nishimura, Takuya, Ohkuko, Takayoshi, Imai, Yutaka
Format: clinical trial research randomized controlled trial Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2002 Feb
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