Blood Pressure and Mortality Risk in the Elderly

Blood Pressure and Mortality Risk in the Elderly

Blood pressure was assessed between 1981 and 1983 in all persons over age 65 years in three communities (East Boston, Massachusetts; New Haven, Connecticut; and Iowa and Washington counties, Iowa), and cause-specific mortality was monitored annually over the subsequent 5 years as part of the Nationa...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of epidemiology 1991-09, Vol.134 (5), p.489-501
Hauptverfasser: Taylor, James O., Cornoni-Huntley, Joan, Curb, J. David, Manton, Kenneth G., Ostfeld, Adrian M., Scherr, Paul, Wallace, Robert B.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aged
aging
Analysis. Health state
Biological and medical sciences
Blood Pressure
Boston - epidemiology
cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality
Connecticut - epidemiology
Epidemiology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
General aspects
Humans
hypertension
Iowa - epidemiology
Logistic Models
longitudinal studies
Male
Medical sciences
Mortality
Neoplasms - mortality
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Risk
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Zusammenfassung:Blood pressure was assessed between 1981 and 1983 in all persons over age 65 years in three communities (East Boston, Massachusetts; New Haven, Connecticut; and Iowa and Washington counties, Iowa), and cause-specific mortality was monitored annually over the subsequent 5 years as part of the National Institute on Agingsponsored Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. Each community had 80% or more participation: in East Boston, 3,809 persons with 903 deaths, in New Haven, 2,812 persons with 804 deaths, and in Iowa, 3,673 persons with 763 deaths. At 2 years, odds of death from all causes were higher in the low (
ISSN:0002-9262
1476-6256
DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116121