Why the study?
Are ten-year blood pressure trajectories stronger predictors of cardiovascular mortality and life years lost compared to other blood pressure measures?
Are ten-year blood pressure trajectories stronger predictors of cardiovascular mortality and life years lost compared to other blood pressure measures?
The optimal blood pressure metric for predicting long-term cardiovascular mortality may vary by population, with 10-year trajectories outperforming average BP in some cohorts but not others.
Optimal BP metric varies by population; leaves open whether trajectories outperform averages for mortality prediction.
Ten-year BP trajectories were the strongest predictors, among different BP measures, of cardiovascular mortality, all-cause mortality, and life years lost in Minnesota. However, average BP was the strongest predictor in Zutphen.
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Tielemans et al. (2015) studied this question.
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