EDITORIAL-Blood Pressure as a Risk Factor of Global Disease Burden and its Association
with Lifetime Risks of Different Manifestations of Cardiovascular
Disease
Abstract:The evaluation of lifetime cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and the life-years lost due to CVD in specific age
groups in a population of 1.25 million people showed that not all elements of hypertension are causally associated with all
manifestations of CVD. High systolic blood pressure (BP) was strongly related to intracerebral haemorrhage, subarachnoid
haemorrhage, stable angina, myocardial infarction, and peripheral arterial disease (PAD). On the other hand, high
diastolic BP had a stronger relationship wit… Show more
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