The association of conventionally medicated systolic and diastolic blood pressure level and mortality from cardiovascular disease: is the lower the better in high stroke population?

Clin Res Cardiol. 2020 Jul;109(7):944-948. doi: 10.1007/s00392-019-01587-8. Epub 2020 Jan 16.

Ryoto Sakaniwa^{1

2}, Jasper Tromp^{2

3

4}, Kokoro Shirai¹, Kazumasa Yamagishi⁵, Akiko Tamakoshi⁶, Hiroyasu Iso^{7

8}

¹ Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.
² Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
³ National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Public Health Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁶ Department of Public Health, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
⁷ Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan. iso@pbhel.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.
⁸ Department of Public Health Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. iso@pbhel.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.

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Keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Conventional blood pressure; Coronary heart disease; Hypertension; Stroke.

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