Hematocrit predicts long-term mortality in a nonlinear and sex-specific manner in hypertensive adults

Hypertension

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 631-638

  Paul, Laura ^a   Jeemon, Panniyammakal ^a   Hewitt, Jonathan ^a   McCallum, Linsay ^a   Higgins, Peter ^a   Walters, Matthew ^a   McClure, John ^a   Dawson, Jesse ^a   Meredith, Peter ^a   Jones, Gregory C ^a   Muir, Scott ^a   Dominiczak, Anna F ^a   Lowe, Gordon ^a   McInnes, Gordon T ^a   Padmanabhan, Sandosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blood pressure; epidemiology; hematocrit; hypertension; mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84865466242     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.191510     Document Type: Article

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