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Repeated measurements of blood pressure and cholesterol improves cardiovascular disease risk prediction: an individual-participant-data meta-analysis

Paige, Ellie; Barrett, Jessica; Pennells, Lisa; Sweeting, Michael; Willeit, Peter; Di Angelantonio, Emanuele; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Nordestgaard, Borge; Psaty, Bruce; Goldbourt, Uri; Best, Lyle G; Assmann, Gerd; Salonen, Jukka T

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The added value of incorporating information from repeated measurements of blood pressure and cholesterol for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction has not been rigorously assessed. We used data from the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration on 191,445 adults (38 cohorts from across 17 countries with data from 1962-2014) with > 1 million measurements of systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; over a median 12 years of follow-up, 21,170 CVD...[Show more]

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Date published: 2017
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/247761
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx149
Access Rights: Open Access

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