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SUBMITTER: Kansui Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8030366 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kansui Yasuo Y Matsumura Kiyoshi K Morinaga Yuki Y Inoue Minako M Kiyohara Kanako K Ohta Yuko Y Goto Kenichi K Ohtsubo Toshio T Ooboshi Hiroaki H Kitazono Takanari T
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 20190304 4
Inflammation plays a key role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases via the development of atherosclerosis. Here, we evaluated the impact of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and the white blood cell (WBC) count on the risk of hypertension in middle-aged Japanese men at a work site. We evaluated a total of 2991 Japanese male workers without hypertension who ranged in age from 18 to 64 years (mean age 40.4 ± 0.2 years) at a worksite in 2010. The hazard ratio (HR) for incident hypertension w ...[more]