Christos Fragoulis, Dimitrios Polyzos, Andreas Mavroudis, Panagiotis-Anastasios Tsioufis, Alexandros Kasiakogias, Ioannis Leontsinis, Emmanouil Mantzouranis, Theodoros Kalos, Athanasios Sakalidis, John Ntalakouras, Ioannis Andrikou, Kyriakos Dimitriadis, Dimitris Konstantinidis, Costas Thomopoulos, Konstantinos Tsioufis
There are scarce data on the comparative prognosis between patients with hypertensive emergencies (HE), urgencies (HU), and those without HU or HE (HP). Our study aimed to compare cardiovascular (CV) outcomes of HE, HU, and HP during a 12-month follow-up period. The population consisted of 353 consecutive patients presenting with HE or HU in a third-care emergency department and subsequently referred to our hypertension center for follow-up. After both groups completed scheduled follow-up visits, patients with HU were matched one-to-one by age, sex, and hypertension history with HP who attended our hypertension center during the same period...
October 21, 2023: European Journal of Internal Medicine