Does decreased diastolic blood pressure associate with increased mortality in 80-year-old japanese

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 639-647

  Kagiyama, Shuntaro ^a,b   Takata, Yutaka ^a   Ansai, Toshihiro ^a   Matsumura, Kiyoshi ^b   Soh, Inho ^a   Awano, Shuji ^a   Sonoki, Kazuo ^a   Yoshida, Akihiro ^a   Torisu, Takehiro ^a   Hamasaki, Tomoko ^a   Nakamichi, Ikuo ^a   Takehara, Tadamichi ^a   Iida, Mitsuo ^b  

^a KYUSHU DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cross sectional study; Elderly; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 72749114328     PISSN: 10641963     EISSN: 15256006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10641960903407009     Document Type: Article

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