Men Born Preterm at Increased Risk for High Blood Pressure -

Men Born Preterm at Increased Risk for High Blood Pressure - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today: "Men Born Preterm at Increased Risk for High Blood Pressure

By Katrina Woznicki, MedPage Today Staff Writer
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
November 23, 2005
Also covered by: ABC News, Forbes
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Explain to patients with a history if premature birth that this study showed a direct and proportional association between an increase in systolic blood pressure and decreased gestational age. There was also an association between diastolic blood pressure and premature birth. "