Associations between long-term blood pressure trajectory and all-cause and CVD mortality among old people in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Optimal blood pressure (BP) management strategy among the elderly remains controversial, with insufficient consideration of long-term BP trajectory. This study aimed to identify BP trajectory patterns as well as terminal BP trajectory among the Chinese elderly and to explore the relationships between BP trajectories and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality.

Methods

We included 11,181 participants older than 60 at baseline (mean age, 80.98 ± 10.71) with 42,871 routine BP measurements from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. Latent class trajectory analysis and Cox proportional hazard model were conducted to identify trajectory patterns and their associations with mortality. Furthermore, we also applied mixed-effects model to

SUBMITTER: Liu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10471127 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature