Hypertensive crisis: clinical characteristics of patients with hypertensive urgency, emergency and pseudocrisis at a public emergency department
ABSTRACT Objective: To assess patients with hypertensive crisis, classified as urgency, emergency or pseudocrisis, and identify the associated variables. Methods: We evaluated a total of 508 patients (57% women; 56.3±13.8 years old) with hypertensive crisis (diastolic blood pressure of 120mmHg), a...
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Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein
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Series: | Einstein (São Paulo) |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-45082019000400209&lng=en&tlng=en |