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The clinical behaviour and mean peak serum aspartate aminotransferase (SGOT) values of 106 patients admitted to a coronary care unit with acute myocardial infarction who displayed acute systolic hypertension were studied. Another 106 normotensive patients with acute myocardial infarction acted as controls. Neither group had established hypertension. The mortality rate, incidence of cardiac failure, major arrhythmias, and mean peak SGOT were significantly greater in the hypertensive group, within which the duration of hypertension was correlated with mean peak SGOT levels--through there was no definite relation between the height of systolic or diastolic pressure and SGOT. Transient systolic hypertension after acute myocardial infarction was therefore associated with a relatively poor prognosis, but our observations suggest that patients with a systolic blood pressure of at least 170 mm Hg might benefit from early hypotensive treatment.
K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
January 1980,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
January 1990,
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K M Fox, and
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C P Aber
December 1981,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
April 1998,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
January 1975,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
January 2003,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
August 1975,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
July 1983,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
July 2005,
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K M Fox, and
I W Tomlinson, and
R W Portal, and
C P Aber
August 1994,
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