Cardiovascular Disease
Studies from University of Leuven have provided new information about cardiovascular disease
Published in Cardiovascular Business Week, October 7th, 2008
According to a study from Leuven, Belgium, "The 24-h ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) is a stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease than conventional blood pressure (CBP), but it remains unclear how it compares with ''usual'' blood pressure (UBP), estimated after CBP has been corrected for regression dilution bias (RDB). We compared the associations of cardiovascular mortality (n = 50), cardiovascular events (n = 101), and cardiac events (n = 71) with systolic CBP, UBP, and ABP over 13 years of follow-up (median) in 1,167 randomly selected Belgians."
"We estimated the correction factor to compute UBP from CBP at the midpoint of follow-up (6.5 years) in 723 untreated...
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