Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease in Older Patients With Diabetes: Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Background Blood pressure (BP) targets in elderly patients with diabetes remain unclear. We evaluated the association between BP and cardiovascular disease in elderly patients with diabetes without cardiovascular disease or heart failure. Methods and Results We performed a retrospective cohort study of 225 563 elderly (aged ≥65 years) patients with diabetes without cardiovascular disease or heart failure from 2009 to 2017 using the National Health Information Database. We divided the participants by systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP. Primary composite outcomes were stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and all-cause death analyzed by Cox proportional hazards regression analysis adjusted for baseline covariates. During a median follow-up of 7.76 years, the incidence rate of primary

SUBMITTER: Hong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8751919 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature