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Editorial
February 12, 2020

Choosing the Best Blood Pressure Target for Vasopressor Therapy

Author Affiliations
  • 1The Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
JAMA. 2020;323(10):931-933. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.22526

Medical research drives innovation and improves outcomes. In cardiology, advances in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment reduced the 30-day mortality from acute myocardial infarction from 20% to 12.4% between 1995 and 2014.1 Similarly, for women diagnosed with breast cancer, 5-year survival has increased from 74% to 88.5% over the past 4 decades2 in parallel with advances in diagnosis and targeted therapy, including chemotherapeutic regimens such as cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil (CMF), trastuzumab, and aromatase inhibitors.3

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