Proportion of patients with isolated systolic hypertension who have burned-out diastolic hypertension.
In a community survey of 3242 subjects, 1663 did not initially have isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) and were re-screened an average of 8 years later. ISH developed in 53 (22%) of untreated patients with previous diastolic hypertension. Similarly, 8% of subjects with transient hypertension and 8% of normotensive controls developed ISH. Of all cases of ISH, 16% had previous diastolic hypertension. These subjects were more likely to have continued to smoke (P = 0.01) and lost more weight (P = 0.001) than patients with ISH who did not have burned-out diastolic hypertension.
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001835:Body Weight; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology
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