Systolic blood pressure predicts cardiovascular mortality in a farming but not in a fishing community: A 40-year follow up of the Japanese cohorts of the seven countries study

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1890-1896

  Hirai, Yuji ^a,b   Geleijnse, Johanna M ^b   Adachi, Hisashi ^a   Imaizumi, Tsutomu ^a   Kromhout, Daan ^b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiovascular diseases; Epidemiology; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FARMING SYSTEM; FISHERMAN; FISHING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960806592     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0971     Document Type: Article

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