Hypertension Treatment Extends Life Expectancy

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Washington, Dec 21 : Hypertension treatment is associated with lower death rate
and gain in life expectancy, a new study has found. John B. Kostis and his
colleagues from the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick,
N.J., conducted a study to examine the effect of blood pressure (BP) lowering on
long-term outcomes like life expectancy.They obtained long-term mortality data
for participants in the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program (SHEP)
trial, which was a randomised, placebo-controlled, clinical trial designed to
assess the effect of antihypertensive drug treatment (chlorthalidone) in
reducing the risk of stroke in patients with isolated systolic
hypertension.Recruitment for SHEP was between March 1985 and January [...]

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