Does Low Diastolic Blood Pressure Contribute to the Risk of Recurrent Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease Events?
The Framingham Heart Study
Stanley S. Franklin, Sohum S. Gokhale, Vincent H. Chow, Martin G. Larson, Daniel Levy, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Gary F. Mitchell, Nathan D. Wong
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From the Heart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine (S.S.F., S.S.G., V.H.C., N.D.W.); Framingham Heart Study, MA (M.G.L., D.L., R.S.V., G.F.M.); Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, MA (M.G.L.); Departments of Biostatistics (M.G.L.) and Epidemiology (R.S.V.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Population Sciences Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (D.L.); and Sections of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, and Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, MA (R.S.V.).
Correspondence to Stanley S. Franklin, Heart Disease Prevention Program, C240 Medical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4079. E-mail ssfranklinmd@earthlink.net
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Abstract
Whether low diastolic blood pressure (DBP) is a risk factor for recurrent cardiovascular disease (CVD) events in persons with isolated systolic hypertension is controversial. We studied 791 individuals (mean age 75 years, 47% female, mean follow-up time: 8±6 years) with DBP