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Intensive Hypertension Treatment Lowers Orthostatic Hypotension – Medscape
A new analysis provides evidence that intensive antihypertensive drug therapy does not raise the risk of orthostatic hypotension, but instead may reduce it.
For most patients with hypertension, more aggressive blood pressure (BP) lowering does not increase risk for orthostatic hypotension (OH); on the contrary, it appears to lower the risk, a new meta-analysis suggests.
In addition, OH prior to treatment was not associated with more OH from aggressive treatment, principal investigator Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
“Our stud…
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