January 1, 2010Journal of Atherosclerosis and ThrombosisOpen Access

Prehypertension Among Middle-Aged and Elderly People in Taiwan: A Five-Year Follow-Up

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1,053 people aged over 40 participating in annual health examinations at local health stations in I-Lan…

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Cohort

Follow-up

5 years

Authors

LLLi-Kuo LiuNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University LPLi‐Ning PengNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University LCLiang‐Kung ChenNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

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Highlights progression risk in older adults; leaves open optimal prevention strategies in Asian cohorts.

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Population

1,053 people aged over 40 participating in annual health examinations at local health stations in I-Lan County, Taiwan (mean age 64.4+/-11.4 years, 44.4% males).

Outcome

Prevalence of prehypertension and evolutionary changes of blood pressure (cumulative incidence of prehypertensive subjects becoming hypertensive) over a 5-year follow-up period.surrogate

Over one-third of older Taiwanese adults have prehypertension, and nearly one-third of these progress to hypertension within 5 years, particularly those with higher pulse pressure and cholesterol levels.

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Liu et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8a724c6fc170cbc2fbee1f https://doi.org/10.5551/jat.2832

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Hypertension management

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Prehypertension Among Middle-Aged and Elderly People in Taiwan: A Five-Year Follow-Up

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