Blood Pressure in Adulthood and Life Expectancy With Cardiovascular Disease in Men and Women

• DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.0000173433.67426.9b
• Publication Date: 2005-06-28T00:33:36Z
• Authors: Oscar H. Franco; Anna Peeters; Luc Bonneux; Chris de Laet
• Keywords: Stroke; Framingham Heart Study

Limited information exists about the consequences of hypertension during adulthood on residual life expectancy with cardiovascular disease. We aimed to analyze course people high blood pressure levels at age 50 in terms total and without disease compared normotensives. constructed multistate tables for disease, myocardial infarction, stroke using data from 3128 participants Framingham Heart Study who had their 50th birthday while enrolled study. For table calculations, we used hazard ratios 3 transitions (healthy death, healthy death) by categories level adjusted age, sex, confounders. Irrespective 50-year-old hypertensives normotensives a shorter expectancy, free stroke, longer lived these diseases. Normotensive men (22% men) survived 7.2 years (95% confidence interval, 5.6 9.0) spent 2.1 (0.9 3.4) fewer Similar differences were observed women. Compared hypertensives, was 5.1 4.9 normotensive women, respectively. Increased is associated large reductions more This effect larger than estimated previously affects both sexes similarly. Our findings underline tremendous importance preventing its population.