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Treatment of Hypertension Lower Is Better , or Is It ? Anthony

Although there is no disagreement that antihypertensive treatment improves clinical outcomes, the blood pressure (BP) level for optimal benefit remains unclear. Among individuals without apparent cardiovascular disease, progressively lower BP levels are associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes down to a level of at least 115/75 mm Hg; however, in the very large group of patients with co...

Commentary Treatment of Hypertension Lower Is Better , or Is It ?

Although there is no disagreement that antihypertensive treatment improves clinical outcomes, the blood pressure (BP) level for optimal benefit remains unclear. Among individuals without apparent cardiovascular disease, progressively lower BP levels are associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes down to a level of at least 115/75 mm Hg; however, in the very large group of patients with co...

Treatment of hypertension: lower is better, or is it?

Although there is no disagreement that antihypertensive treatment improves clinical outcomes, the blood pressure (BP) level for optimal benefit remains unclear. Among individuals without apparent cardiovascular disease, progressively lower BP levels are associated with improved cardiovascular outcomes down to a level of at least 115/75 mm Hg; however, in the very large group of patients with co...

Your System is Secure? Prove it!

Computer security is an old problem which has lost none of its relevance — as is evidenced by the annual Security issue of ;login:. The systems research community has increased its attention to security issues in recent years, as can be seen by an increasing number of security-related papers published in the mainstream systems conferences SOSP, OSDI, and USENIX. However, the focus is primarily ...

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