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The protective effects of lower systolic or diastolic blood pressure against vascular mortality attenuates with increasing age depicted by hazard ratios getting closer to one (null effect) in consecutive decades. IHD: Ischemic Heart Disease. From a meta-analysis of 61 studies (total n: 1 million) by Lewington et al 40, with permission. *
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