Although high blood pressure has long been recognized and studied as a cardiovascular risk factor, a large new study published in the Lancet provides a more detailed, granular view of the specific role of different forms of hypertension.
Eleni Rapsomaniki and colleagues in the U.K. analyzed data from 1.25 million people without existing cardiovascular disease age 30 and older. An important, and perhaps surprising, new finding is that high blood pressure was not a simple monolithic cardiovascular risk factor. Instead, the researchers found that different types of hypertension at different stages of life had different cardiovascular effects.
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