Does cold outdoor temperature (winter) increase blood pressure and cardiovascular disease mortality in adult Chinese individuals with prior cardiovascular disease?
Winter months are associated with increased blood pressure and cardiovascular mortality in patients with prior cardiovascular disease, highlighting the potential need for more aggressive blood pressure monitoring and treatment during cold seasons.
Among adult Chinese with prior-CVD, there is both increased blood pressure and CVD mortality in winter. Careful monitoring and more aggressive blood pressure lowering treatment in the cold months are needed to help reduce the winter excess CVD mortality in high-risk individuals.
Yang et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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