Prehypertension Tsunami: A Decade Follow-Up of an Iranian Adult Population.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prehypertension is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is no study to examine the incidence and risk factors of prehypertension in a sex stratified setting. The aim of this study was to examine the effect modification of sex for different risk factors which predicts the progression from normotension to prehypertension in a Middle East population-based cohort, during a median follow-up of 9.2 years.

Methods

A multivariate Cox analysis was performed among 1466 and 2131 Iranian men and women, respectively, who were free of prehypertension, hypertension, CVD and diabetes at baseline and free of incident hypertension without preceding prehypertension at follow-up. Incident prehypertension at follow-up was defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 120-1

SUBMITTER: Hadaegh F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4595371 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature