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

Eleni Rapsomaniki, Adam Timmis, Julie George, Mar Pujades-Rodriguez, Anoop D Shah, Spiros Denaxas, Ian R White, Mark J Caulfield, John E Deanfield, Liam Smeeth, others
January 2014
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Abstract

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.

Type
Journal article
Publication
The Lancet

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