Blood pressure treatments aimed at preventing complications, such as heart attacks and strokes, work best if the doctor takes into account your body mass index (BMI), researchers from State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center reported in The Lancet today. The authors suggest that generally, obese patients respond best to diuretic medications, which should not be used with non-obese people with hypertension (high blood pressure), because of a considerably higher risk of cardiovascular events...
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