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(Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases.) Edited by L. Michael Prisant. 531 pp., illustrated. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2005. $135. ISBN 1-58829-197-9.

In the United States, the prevalence of hypertension among people who are 60 years of age or older has increased from 57.9 percent in the period from 1988 through 1991 to 65.4 percent in 1999 through 2000, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. That rise, coupled with the projected growth in the population over the age of 65 years from 39 million in 2010 to 69 million in 2030, speaks for a large increase in the number of people who will be at risk for complications of hypertension — including heart failure, stroke, and coronary heart disease, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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