Evitación de muertes potenciales y eventos adversos graves derivados de la adopción del régimen de presión arterial

Adam P Bress1, Holly Kramer2, Rasha Khatib2

  • 1From Division of Health System Innovation and Research, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City (A.P.B., R.H.); Department of Public Health Sciences (H.K., R.K., G.C., R.D.-A., R.S.C.) and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension (H.K., V.K.B.), Loyola Medical Center, Maywood, IL; Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (S.B., A.K.C.); Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City (R.H.); Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI (J.Y.); Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY (A.E.M.); and School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (P.M.). adam.bress@hsc.utah.edu.

Circulation
|February 15, 2017
PubMed
Resumen

La implementación de un tratamiento intensivo de la presión arterial sistólica (PAS) en adultos estadounidenses elegibles podría evitar más de 100,000 muertes al año. Sin embargo, esta estrategia también puede aumentar la aparición de eventos adversos graves.

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