Patients with high blood pressure need extra treatment within about six weeks to prevent heart attacks, strokes and death, according to a study that provides some of the first tips on timing for doctors. Alexander Turchin, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is senior author of the study.
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