Why the study?
Does an ankle/arm blood pressure index of 0.9 or less predict increased mortality in ambulatory women 65 years of age or older?
Population
1,492 white women 65 years of age or older, living in a rural community and ambulatory without the help of…
Comparison
Ankle/arm blood pressure index (ABI) ≤ 0.9 vs Ankle/arm blood pressure index (ABI) > 0.9
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
average 4.3 years
Authors
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ABI ≤0.9 identifies older women at higher mortality risk; leaves open its incremental prognostic value beyond standard factors.
Does an ankle/arm blood pressure index of 0.9 or less predict increased mortality in ambulatory women 65 years of age or older?
An ankle/arm blood pressure index ≤ 0.9 is a strong, independent predictor of short-term all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in older, ambulatory women, identifying a high-risk group that may benefit from aggressive risk factor modification.
Molly T. Vogt (1993) studied this question.
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