Association of Lifestyle Factors and Antihypertensive Medication Use With Risk of All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Adults With Hypertension in China.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The joint association of antihypertensive medication use and healthy lifestyle with mortality among individuals with hypertension is unclear.

Objective

To examine the association of lifestyle factors combined with antihypertensive medication use, as well as changes in lifestyle, with all-cause and cause-specific mortality among individuals with hypertension.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used data from the Dongfeng-Tongji cohort, a long-term, prospective cohort including employees at a manufacturer in China, with baseline from 2008 to 2010. Participants with hypertension were followed up for a median (IQR) of 7.3 (5.7-10.3) years, ending in 2018. Data were analyzed from February to April 2021.

Exposures

Lifestyle factors, includ

SUBMITTER: Lu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8808332 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature