PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fouad-Tarazi, Fetnat M.
AU  - Hobbs, Robert E.
TI  - Hypertension revisited: the concept of relative hypertension in congestive heart failure
DP  - 1989 Jun 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 447--450
VI  - 56
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/56/4/447.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/56/4/447.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1989 Jun 01; 56
AB  - Although hypertension has been defined numerically as blood pressure levels above 140/90 mmHg, there is no doubt that a blood pressure level within the "normal" range increases the stress on a diseased heart. For this reason, vasodilator therapy is often successful in treating congestive heart failure. The authors propose the term relative hypertension to illustrate the latter situation.