Selected Reading
- Franklin SS et al: The Framingham Heart Study: Hemodynamic patterns of age-related changes in blood pressure. Circulation 96:308, 1997
- Gottdiener JS et al: Effect of single-drug therapy on reduction of left ventricular mass in mild to moderate hypertension: Comparison of six antihypertensive agents: The Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents. Circulation 95:2007, 1997
- Levy D et al: The progression from hypertension to congestive heart failure. JAMA 275:1557, 1996
- Madhavan S et al: Relation of pulse pressure and blood pressure reduction to the incidence of myocardial infarction Hypertension 23:395, 1994
- Messerli FH, Schmieder RE, Weir MR: Salt: A perpetrator of hypertensive target organ disease? Arch Intern Med 157:2449, 1997
- National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group: Report on hypertension in the elderly: Hypertension 23:275, 1994
- National High Blood Pressure Working Group: Report on primary prevention of hypertension. Arch Intern Med 153:186, 1993
- Schmieder RE, Martus R Klingbeil A: Reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy in essential hypertension: A meta-analysis of randomized doubleblind studies. JAMA 275:1507, 1996
- Staessen JA et al. Randomised double-blind comparison of placebo and active treatment for older patients with isolated systolic hypertension: The Systolic Hypertension in Europe (Syst-Eur) Trial. Lancet 350:757, 1997
- Smulyan H, Safar ME: Systolic blood pressure revisited. J Am Coll Cardiol 29:1407, 1997
- Vasan RS, Benjamin E J, Levy D: Framingham Heart Study: Prevalence, clinical features and prognosis of diastolic heart failure: An epidemiologic perspective. J Am Coll Cardiol 26:1565,1995
- Verdecchia P et al. Prognostic significance of serial changes in left ventricular mass in essential hypertension: Circulation 97:48, 1998