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Article: SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE PREDICTS MORTALITY IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 7, 2006
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The University of California at Los Angeles issued the following press release:
Systolic blood pressure, a readily available vital sign taken at hospital admission, has been found to be a key factor in predicting mortality risk and revealing important disease characteristics for heart failure patients, according to a team of academic researchers.
These new findings indicate that heart failure patients with higher systolic blood pressures had substantially lower death rates compared to patients with lower systolic pressures, and that lower systolic pressures may indicate more advanced disease and a poorer prognosis.
Published in the Nov. 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical ...