Is why cardiovascular mortality higher in treated hypertensives versus subjects of the same age , in the general population?
The increased cardiovascular mortality in treated hypertensive subjects as compared with untreated subjects is mainly due to high SBP levels under treatment. This result suggests that the excess risk found in treated hypertensives may be drastically reduced if SBP were brought under control.
These findings suggest that frozen section is superior to imprint cytology for the intra-operative determination of sentinel lymph node metastasis in stage I breast cancer patients.