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To the Editor: Regarding the treatment of renal-artery stenoses with endoprostheses, Blum et al. (Feb. 13 issue)¹ mention as primary outcomes in their patients that 16 percent had long-term normalization of their blood pressure and 84 percent were free of primary occlusion of the stent 60 months after stent placement. From the article it is clear that 16 patients were not followed for three months. Therefore, the measurement of blood pressure used to assess the effect of treatment must have been the blood pressure measured at discharge. Taking this blood pressure to represent the result of treatment is not in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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