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SUBMITTER: Jani BD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5096031 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jani Bhautesh Dinesh BD Cavanagh Jonathan J Barry Sarah J E SJ Der Geoff G Sattar Naveed N Mair Frances S FS
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 20160403 10
The authors studied the joint effect of blood pressure (BP) and depression on the risk of major adverse cardiovascular outcome in patients with existing cardiometabolic disease. A cohort of 35,537 patients with coronary heart disease, diabetes, or stroke underwent depression screening and BP measurement recorded concurrently. The authors used Cox's proportional hazards to calculate risk of major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE; myocardial infarction/heart failure/stroke or cardiovascular deat ...[more]