Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for risk stratification in obese and non-obese subjects from 10 populations
- Categories: Metabolic Health, Public Health
Type Article
Journal Article
Authors
T. W. Hansen; L. Thijs; Y. Li; J. Boggia; Y. Liu; K. Asayama; M. Kikuya; K. Björklund-Bodegård; T. Ohkubo; J. Jeppesen; C. Torp-Pedersen; E. Dolan; T. Kuznetsova; K. Stolarz-Skrzypek; V. Tikhonoff; S. Malyutina; E. Casiglia; Y. Nikitin; L. Lind; E. Sandoy
Year of publication
2014
Publication/Journal
J Hum Hypertens
Volume
28
Issue
9
Pages
535-42
Abstract
Overweight clusters with high blood pressure (BP), but the independent contribution of both risk factors remains insufficiently documented. In a prospective population study involving 8467 participants (mean age 54.6 years; 47.0% women) randomly recruited from 10 populations, we studied the contribution of body mass index (BMI) to risk over and beyond BP, taking advantage of the superiority of ambulatory over conventional BP. Over 10.6 years (median), 1271 participants (15.0%) died and 1092 (12.9%), 637 (7.5%) and 443 (5.2%) experienced a fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular, cardiac or cerebrovascular event. Adjusted for sex and age, low BMI (