Why the study?
Do metabolic risk factors and their changes over time predict incident arterial hypertension in adults with initially optimal blood pressure?
Population
967 American Indians with optimal blood pressure and no prevalent cardiovascular disease, mean age 54+/-7…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
8 years
Authors
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Metabolic trajectories may refine hypertension risk assessment in optimal-BP adults; leaves open targeted prevention trials.
Do metabolic risk factors and their changes over time predict incident arterial hypertension in adults with initially optimal blood pressure?
In adults with optimal initial blood pressure, increasing abdominal obesity and abnormal lipid profiles over time are major predictors of developing arterial hypertension.
Simone et al. (2005) studied this question.
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