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Arterial hypertension is a common systemic disease. In the middle-aged and elderly population, there is a trend toward a rise in blood pressure (BP) which often becomes steeper with age [1]. Systemic mortality and morbidity are markedly higher in hypertensives than in normotensives; for example, hypertensives are seven times as likely to develop stroke as normotensives, four times as likely to have congestive heart failure, three times as likely to have coronary artery disease, and twice as likely to have peripheral arterial disease; and the hypertensive’s risk of total and cardiovascular mortality is twice that of the normotensive [2].

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