Blood pressure and incidence of twelve cardiovascular diseases: lifetime risks, healthy life-years lost, and age-specific associations in 1·25 million people

Rapsomaniki, Eleni; Timmis, Adam; George, Julie; Pujades‐Rodríguez, Mar; D Shah, Anoop; Denaxas, Spiros; R. White, Ian; J. Caulfield, Mark; Deanfield, John; Smeeth, Liam; Williams, Bryan; D. Hingorani, Aroon; Hemingway, Harry

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60685-1

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Blood pressure and incidence of twelve cardiovascular diseases: lifetime risks, healthy life-years lost, and age-specific associations in 1·25 million people

Published in The Lancet • May 1, 2014

Authors:

Eleni Rapsomaniki

Adam Timmis

Julie George

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The associations of blood pressure with the different manifestations of incident cardiovascular disease in a contemporary population have not been compared. In this study, we aimed to analyse the associations of blood pressure with 12 different presentations of cardiovascular disease. ME...

Subject

Medicine

Blood pressure

Hazard ratio

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