Resting heart rate and blood pressure, independent of each other, proportionally raise the risk for type-2 diabetes mellitus
Author(s) -
T Nagaya,
Hideyo Yoshida,
Hidekatsu Takahashi,
Makoto Kawai
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyp229
Subject(s) - medicine , heart rate , blood pressure , quartile , hazard ratio , diabetes mellitus , body mass index , proportional hazards model , confounding , population , cardiology , diastole , endocrinology , confidence interval , environmental health
Fast heart rate and high blood pressure (BP) at rest may raise risk for the development of type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM). We therefore investigated dose-response and interactive effects of resting heart rate and BP on the incidence of DM in a Japanese population.
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