Journal article
Cardiovascular outcomes in patients at high cardiovascular risk with previous myocardial infarction or stroke
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend to start blood pressure (BP)-lowering drugs also according to cardiovascular risk including history of cardiovascular events. We hypothesized that in patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, both or none of those, the index events predict the next event and have different SBP risk associations to different cardiovascular outcomes.
DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS: In this pooled posthoc, …
Authors
Böhm M; Schumacher H; Teo KK; Lonn EM; Lauder L; Mancia G; Redon J; Schmieder RE; Sliwa K; Marx N
Journal
Journal of Hypertension, Vol. 39, No. 8, pp. 1602–1610
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
August 2021
DOI
10.1097/hjh.0000000000002822
ISSN
0263-6352