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Epidemiologic studies have repeatedly shown a positive correlation between blood pressure and both coronary and cerebral mortality. Moreover, there is also a positive correlation between serum cholesterol and blood pressure. Nevertheless, randomised, controlled drug treatment hypertension trials have failed to achieve a favorable reduction of the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), in contrast to cerebral artery disease which has been significantly reduced by drug treatment.
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Leren, P. et al. (1984). Blood Lipids and Antihypertensive Drugs: The Oslo Study. In: Chazov, E.I., Smirnov, V.N., Oganov, R.G. (eds) Cardiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1824-9_34
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