Open AccessPulse Pressure and Long-Term Survival After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Author(s) -
Nikolay Nikolov,
Manuel L. Fontes,
William D. White,
Solomon Aronson,
Shahar Bar-Yosef,
Jeffrey G. Gaca,
Mihai V. Podgoreanu,
Mark StaffordSmith,
Mark F. Newman,
Joseph P. Mathew
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181c76f87
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , cardiology , blood pressure , pulse pressure , proportional hazards model , coronary artery bypass surgery , mean arterial pressure , coronary artery disease , artery , diabetes mellitus , diastole , surgery , heart rate , confidence interval , endocrinology
Data from longitudinal studies reveal that widened pulse pressure (PP) is a major predictor of coronary heart disease and mortality, but it is unknown whether PP similarly decreases survival after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery for coronary heart disease. We therefore assessed long-term survival in patients with increased PP at the time of presentation for CABG surgery.