Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and all-cause mortality in elderly people with diabetes mellitus.

ABSTRACT: In a multiethnic cohort of older people with diabetes (n=1178), we assessed whether ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring improves prediction of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality when added to baseline covariates, including office BP and heart rate (HR). Secondary analyses assessed whether albuminuria may mediate the association of pulse pressure with mortality. The ambulatory arterial stiffness index was calculated as "1-slope" from the within-person regression of diastolic-on-systolic ambulatory BP readings. Mean follow-up was 6.6+/-0.4 years. There were 287 deaths; death certificates were available for 215 deaths (75%), and 110 of them were deemed of cardiovascular cause. Cox models were built incrementally. First, models using clinical and laboratory variables select

SUBMITTER: Palmas W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559297 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature