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Single Versus Combined Blood Pressure Components and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
Author(s) -
Stanley S. Franklin,
Víctor A. López,
Nathan D. Wong,
Gary F. Mitchell,
Martin G. Larson,
Ramachandran S. Vasan,
Daniel Levy
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.108.797936
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , pulse pressure , cardiology , framingham risk score , mean arterial pressure , hemodynamics , framingham heart study , logistic regression , arterial stiffness , disease , heart rate
The utility of single versus combined blood pressure (BP) components in predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) events is not established. We compared systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) versus pulse pressure (PP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) combined and each of these 4 BP components alone in predicting CVD events.

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