Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies.
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Summary
Throughout middle and old age, usual blood pressure is strongly and directly related to vascular (and overall) mortality, without any evidence of a threshold down to at least 115/75 mm Hg.
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- review
- Published
- 2002-12-14
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Keywords
Blood pressure, Medicine, Stroke (engine), Prospective cohort study, Internal medicine
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