• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11911-8
Corpus ID: 54363452

Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies

@article{Lewington2002AgespecificRO,
  title={Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies},
  author={S. Lewington and R. Clarke and N. Qizilbash and R. Peto and R. Collins},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2002},
  volume={360},
  pages={1903-1913}
}

• S. Lewington, R. Clarke, +2 authors R. Collins
• Published 2002
• Medicine
• The Lancet

The age-specific relevance of blood pressure to cause-specific mortality is best assessed by collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data from the separate prospective studies. Methods Information was obtained on each of one million adults with no previous vascular disease recorded at baseline in 61 prospective observational studies of blood pressure and mortality. During 12.7 million person-years at risk, there were about 56 000 vascular deaths (12 000 stroke, 34000 ischaemic… Expand