Many. patients have a polytrauma, injuries to other parts of the body in addition to the head and brain. Trauma victims often develop hypermetabolism or an increased metabolic rate, causing muscle wasting and the starvation of other tissues.
1 Normal: Less than 120 systolic and less than 80 diastolic. 2  Pre-hypertension: 120-139 systolic or 80-89 diastolic. 3  Hypertension: 140 or higher systolic or 90 or higher diastolic.  Hypertensive Crisis: higher than 180 or higher than 110 diastolic.
For the specific hypothesis tested here (influence of time of hypertension treatment on CVD risk in. diabetes), we assessed 480 patients fulfilling the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Among these, 448 (255. men/193 women, 62.5Â±10.8 (meanÂ±SD) years of age) provided all required information for the study.