Long-term cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients: full report of the Korean Hypertension Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

This study evaluated the long-term cardiovascular complications among Korean patients with hypertension and compared them with that of controls without hypertension.

Methods

The Korean Hypertension Cohort (KHC) enrolled 11,043 patients with hypertension and followed them for more than 10 years. Age- and sex-matched controls without hypertension were enrolled at a 1:10 ratio. We compared the incidence of cardiovascular events and death among patients and controls without hypertension.

Results

The mean age was 59 years, and 34.8% and 16.5% of the patients belonged to the high and moderate cardiovascular risk groups, respectively. During the 10-year follow-up, 1,591 cardiovascular events (14.4%) with 588 deaths (5.3%) occurred among patients with hyperten

SUBMITTER: Lee JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9816676 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature