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| October 2002, Volume 16, Number 10, Pages 667-675 |
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| Review |
| Hypertension and the eye: changing perspectives |
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| S Chatterjee1, S Chattopadhya2, M Hope-Ross1 and Mrs PL Lip1 |
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1The Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
2Department of Academic Cardiology, University of Hull, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK
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Correspondence to: Mrs PL Lip, The Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, City Hospital, Dudley Rd, Birmingham B18 7QU, UK. E-mail: pllw@doctors.org.uk |
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| Systemic hypertension is a common condition associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Hypertension confers cardiovascular risk by causing target-organ damage that includes retinopathy in addition to heart disease, stroke, renal insufficiency and peripheral vascular disease. The recognition of hypertensive retinopathy is important in cardiovascular risk stratification of hypertensive individuals. This review reevaluates the changing perspectives in the pathophysiology, classification and prognostic significance of fundal lesions in hypertensives. Journal of Human Hypertension (2002) 16, 667-675. doi: 10.1038/sj.jhh.1001472 |
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| hypertensive retinopathy; target-organ damage; classification |
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| Received 1 May 2000; accepted 25 July 2002 |
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| October 2002, Volume 16, Number 10, Pages 667-675 |
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