… Background: This study compares the associations of predialysis systolic blood pressure (SBP)
with mortality risk in both incident and prevalent hemodialysis (HD) cohorts by using both …

… risk factors, when systolic and diastolic blood pressure were considered separately, SBP was
predictive of cardiovascular death … blood pressure and their influence on cardiovascular risk…

… risk factors introduced 11 degrees of freedom (df). We considered the relative risks (RRs) of
CVD death … CIs) of cardiovascular death for SBP and three other blood pressure parameters …

… of cohort studies on diastolic blood pressure (per 10 mmHg) and sudden cardiac death; d
Nonlinear … blood pressure and sudden cardiac death (CI, confidence interval; RR, relative risk) …

… Both systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) follow progressive
upward trajectories from childhood to middle age, but blood pressure (BP) trends at older ages …

… support for lowering blood pressure to systolic blood pressures less than … blood pressure
lowering results in similar proportional reductions in risk of cardiovascular disease and death to …

… His risk of cardiovascular death in five years is 17% (fig 1). For his age he has an unusually
… risk (fig 3), although his systolic blood pressure is not particularly high. His risk score …

… events is higher among patients with high baseline risk. … if the risk associated with increased
blood pressure variability is similar among patients at different levels of baseline risk of …

Background and objectives: Mean arterial pressure has been used in clinical trials in nephrology
to randomly assign and treat patients, yet the pulsatile component of BP is recognized …

… We observed blood pressure and glucose levels to be the strongest predictors of renal death
in this population. Although these findings are not unexpected given that hypertension and …