Rashed Al Bannay, Michael Böhm, Aysha Husain
OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical significance of presenting blood pressure parameters and heart rate in patients with hypertensive crisis. METHODS: In patients admitted with hypertensive crisis between January 2011 and May 2011, demography, mode of presentation, co-morbidities, blood pressure readings, and heart rate at presentation were documented. Further clustering of hypertensive crisis into emergency or urgency was based on the presence or absence of target organ involvement...
August 2013: Clinical Research in Cardiology: Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society