Aggressive treatment of high blood pressure comes with risks, and the study, a large clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, has not yet been peer - reviewed or published.
By starting
treatment for
high blood pressure earlier and being more
aggressive, physicians in the United States control hypertension significantly better than their counterparts in western Europe report researchers from Temple, the University
of Chicago, and Stanford in the Jan. 22, 2007, issue
of the Archives
of Internal Medicine.