Association Between Pre-hypertension and Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies

Autor: Hongmei Yang, Yingxian Sun, Liang Guo, Jue Li, Xiaoyu Zhang, Zhaoqing Sun, Liqiang Zheng, Xiaofan Guo, Zhao Li, Xingang Zhang, Xinghu Zhou, Shasha Yu
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Current Hypertension Reports. 15:703-716
ISSN: 1534-3111
1522-6417
Popis: The quantitative associations between prehypertension or its separate blood pressure (BP) ranges and the risk of main cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have not been reliably documented. We performed a comprehensive search of PubMed (1966 to June 2012) and the Cochrane Library (1988 to June 2012) without language restrictions. Prospective studies were included if they reported multivariate-adjusted risk ratios (RRs) and corresponding 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) of desirable outcomes, including fatal or non-fatal incident stroke, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction (MI) or total CVD events, with respect to prehypertension or its separate BP ranges (low range: 120–129/80–84 mmHg; high range: 130–139/85–89 mmHg) at baseline with normal BP (
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