Why the study?
Does systolic or diastolic blood pressure more strongly predict stroke risk in a general population?
Population
19,698 women and men participating in the Copenhagen City Heart Study
Comparison
Systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood… vs Lower vs higher blood pressure distributions…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1976 through 1988
Authors
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SBP more strongly predicts stroke than DBP; supports refining risk models in cohorts but leaves clinical adoption open.
Does systolic or diastolic blood pressure more strongly predict stroke risk in a general population?
Systolic blood pressure is a stronger predictor of stroke risk than diastolic blood pressure, and the association is not log-linear.
Lindenstrøm et al. (1995) studied this question.
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