RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Hypertension revisited: the concept of relative hypertension in congestive heart failure
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 447
OP 450
VO 56
IS 4
A1 Fouad-Tarazi, Fetnat M.
A1 Hobbs, Robert E.
YR 1989
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/56/4/447.abstract
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.