Serial blood pressure measurements, left ventricular remodelling and cardiovascular outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hypertension is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease. Whether serial blood pressure (BP) measurements are more closely associated with subclinical left ventricular (LV) remodelling and better predict risk of cardiovascular events over individual BP measurements are not known.

Methods

We assessed systolic BP, diastolic BP and pulse pressure at several time points during adulthood in 1333 women and 1211 men participating in the Akershus Cardiac Examination 1950 Study. We defined serial BP measurements as the sum of averaged BPs from adjacent consecutive visits indexed to total exposure time between measurements. We assessed the associations between serial and individual BP measurements and (1) LV structure, function and volumes and (2) inciden

SUBMITTER: Lyngbakken MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078318 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature