Association between blood pressure and mortality in 80-year-old subjects from a population- based prospective study in Japan

Hypertension Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 265-270

  Kagiyama, Shuntaro ^a,b   Fukuhara, Masayo ^a   Ansai, Toshihiro ^c   Matsumura, Kiyoshi ^b   Soh, Inho ^c   Takata, Yutaka ^a   Sonoki, Kazuo ^a   Awano, Shuji ^c   Takehara, Tadamichi ^c   Iida, Mitsuo ^b  

^a Promotion Science of Health Improvement   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Science of Health Improvement ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Elderly; Mortality; Systolic blood pressure

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTOLE;

EID: 41549110623     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.31.265     Document Type: Article

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