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SUBMITTER: Ahn SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7924835 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahn Soon-Ki SK Lee Ju-Mi JM Ji Seon Mi SM Kim Kyoung Hoon KH Park Jong-Heon JH Hyun Min Kyung MK
International journal of environmental research and public health 20210221 4
This retrospective cohort study was done to investigate the incidence of hypertension and its relation to the fasting blood glucose level in Korea. The eligible non-hypertensive subjects (<i>n</i> = 3,396,187) among the National Health Insurance Service-National Health Screening (NHIS-HEALS) examinees (<i>n</i> = 10,644,911) in 2009 were followed up until 2015. A Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate the risk of the high blood glucose level for the incident hypertension while ...[more]