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| The relationship between blood pressure and mortality in the oldest old | | Author(s) | Shiva Satish, Daniel H Freeman, Jr, Laura Ray |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 49, no 4, April 2001 |
| Pages | pp 367-374 |
| Keywords | Blood pressure ; Death rate [statistics] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data was used from the Established Populations for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) for 12,802 community-dwelling people aged 65+ from sites in: East Boston, MA; New Haven, CT; two rural counties in Iowa; and Piedmont, NC. Analyses show that there are complex relationships between age (65-84 vs 85+), gender, blood pressure, and mortality. For ages 65 to 84, there is a positive relationship between systolic blood pressure and subsequent mortality, and controlling for comorbidity does not substantially change this relationship. In men aged 85+, the relationship is reversed with higher systolic blood pressure associated with lower mortality. In women aged 85+, there is no relationship between systolic blood pressure and subsequent mortality. Increasing diastolic blood pressure is significantly associated with lower mortality in men aged 65-84, and there is a similar non-significant trend for men age 85+. There are no relationships between level of diastolic blood pressure and subsequent mortality for women of either age group. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020115208 A |
| Classmark | BKL: S5: 3J: 7T |
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