Association of Office and Ambulatory Blood Pressure With Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Blood pressure (BP) is a known risk factor for overall mortality and cardiovascular (CV)-specific fatal and nonfatal outcomes. It is uncertain which BP index is most strongly associated with these outcomes.

Objective

To evaluate the association of BP indexes with death and a composite CV event.

Design, setting, and participants

Longitudinal population-based cohort study of 11 135 adults from Europe, Asia, and South America with baseline observations collected from May 1988 to May 2010 (last follow-ups, August 2006-October 2016).

Exposures

Blood pressure measured by an observer or an automated office machine; measured for 24 hours, during the day or the night; and the dipping ratio (nighttime divided by daytime readings).

Main outcomes and measures

SUBMITTER: Yang WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822661 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature