Associations Between Blood Pressure and Outcomes Among Blacks in the Jackson Heart Study

Associations Between Blood Pressure and Outcomes Among Blacks in the Jackson Heart Study

Background In 2014, new hypertension guidelines liberalized blood pressure goals for persons 60 years and older. Little is known about the implications for blacks. Methods and Results Using data from 2000 through 2011 for 5280 participants in the Jackson Heart Study, a community‐based black cohort i...

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Main Authors: Tiffany C. Randolph, Melissa A. Greiner, Chidiebube Egwim, Adrian F. Hernandez, Kevin L. Thomas, Lesley H. Curtis, Paul Muntner, Wei Wang, Robert J. Mentz, Emily C. O'Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
Blacks
heart failure
hospitalization
hypertension
mortality
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.003928
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