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Heart failure and cardiomyopathy
Quantifying the paradoxical effect of higher systolic blood pressure on mortality in chronic heart failure
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- Published on: 23 November 2015
- Published on: 23 November 2015BP changes and survival in chronic heart failureShow More
I read with great interest the paper by Raphael et al. in Heart regarding the seemingly paradoxical effect of high blood pressure (BP) and improved survival in chronic heart failure (1). Shortly after this was accepted/available on online and typically characteristic of the tempo of research, was the publication by Grigorian-Shamagian L et al. who followed up 1062 patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) for a mean of 1.9 ye...
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