Blood Pressure Levels in Young Adulthood and Midlife Stroke Incidence in a Diverse Cohort

Hypertension. 2021 May 5;77(5):1683-1693. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.16535. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

Yariv Gerber^{1

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3}, Jamal S Rana^{2

4}, David R Jacobs Jr⁵, Yuichiro Yano⁶, Deborah A Levine⁷, Mai N Nguyen-Huynh², Joao A C Lima⁸, Jared P Reis⁹, Lihui Zhao¹⁰, Kiang Liu¹⁰, Cora E Lewis¹¹, Stephen Sidney²

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Y.G.).
² Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland (Y.G., J.S.R., M.N.N.-H., S.S.).
³ Division of Epidemiology, University of California Berkeley, CA (Y.G.).
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco (J.S.R.).
⁵ Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (D.R.J.).
⁶ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University, Durham, NC (Y.Y.).
⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (D.A.L.).
⁸ Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (J.A.C.L.).
⁹ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD (J.P.R.).
¹⁰ Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (L.Z., K.L.).
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham (C.E.L.).

Abstract

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Keywords: blood pressure; cohort studies; primary prevention; risk factors; young adult.