To print: Select File and then Print from your browser's menu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Pulse Pressure Serves As Marker For Heart Disease Death URL: http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/4CE26.htm Doctor's Guide December 8, 1997
DALLAS, TX -- December 8, 1997 -- A novel form of blood pressure reading can be a strong predictor of coronary heart disease death, according to a study reported in this month'sHypertension, an American Heart Association journal. The measurement of pulse pressure is the difference of the two blood pressure measurements -- the systolic (the higher number) and diastolic (the lower number). Athanase Benetos, M.D., Ph.D., research director at Inserm and associate professor of clinical therapeutics at the University of Paris, said this is the first study to show that pulse pressure measurement may help in the evaluation of the individual risk, therefore the therapeutic decision-making. Our results demonstrated that increased pulse pressure is a predictor of global mortality and cardiovascular mortality, especially coronary heart disease mortality, independently of other risk factors and the level of men's blood pressure," Benetos said. The study -- spanning about 20 years -- included 19,083 men 40 to 69 years old. Both younger and older individuals with a pulse pressure greater than 65 mmHg had a three-fold increase in coronary heart disease mortality compared to those with a pulse pressure less than or equal to 45 mmHg. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 1999 P\S\L Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of P\S\L content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of P\S\L. P\S\L shall not be liable for any errors, omissions or delays in this content or any other content on its sites, newsletters or other publications, nor for any decisions or actions taken in reliance on such content. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This news story was printed from *Doctor's Guide to the Internet* located at http://www.docguide.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to News Story Page This site is maintained by webmaster@pslgroup.com Please contact us with any comments, problems or bugs. All contents Copyright (c) 1998 P\S\L Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved.