【高血压英文精品课件】Get to Goal, Achieve control.pptVIP

- A direct relationship has been shown between the maximum home systolic blood pressure and left ventricular mass index (figure A) as well as the degree of carotid intima-media thickness (figure B). * * * * * Historically, efforts to control BP and limit associated morbidity and mortality have focused on DBP.1 A community-based sample from the Framingham Heart Study showed that control of SBP is more difficult among patients with hypertension1: As this slide shows, 67% of hypertensive patients had SBP above the goal of 140 mmHg1 In contrast, elevated DBP (90 mmHg) was observed in only 17% of p