Zhonghua nei ke za zhi
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Zhonghua nei ke za zhi · Dec 2014
Multicenter Study[The 10-year stroke risk in hypertensive outpatients combined with diabetes in cardiovascular clinics of 36 tertiary hospitals in China].
To assess the estimated 10-year risk of stroke among hypertensive outpatients known with diabetes from cardiovascular clinics of 36 tertiary hospitals in China and to analyze the characteristics of the risk factors and the 10-year risk of stroke between the southern and the northern patients. ⋯ Among the hypertensive outpatients known with diabetes from the cardiovascular clinics of our study, most of them were at the 10-year high risk of stroke. The southern patients had a higher mean 10-year probability of stroke than that of the northern patients.