5.27 Metabolic Syndrome and Multiple Organ Damage in Essential Hypertension
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Metabolic syndrome and multiple organ damage in essential hypertension.
AIM We investigated the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MS) in hypertensive patients categorized according to the number of markers of organ damage (OD) in order to assess the value of a systematic search for cardiac and extra-cardiac OD in the MS setting. METHODS A total of 3119 untreated and treated essential hypertensives included in the Evaluation of Target Organ Damage in Hypertens...
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عنوان ژورنال: High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1120-9879,1179-1985
DOI: 10.1007/bf03263647