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Elevated blood pressure and risk of mitral regurgitation: A longitudinal cohort study of 5.5 million United Kingdom adults
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Background
Mitral regurgitation in people without prior cardiac disease is considered a degenerative disease with no established risk factors for its prevention. We aimed to test the hypothesis that elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) across its usual spectrum is associated with higher risk of mitral regurgitation.
Methods and findings
We used linked electronic health records from the United Kingdom Clinical Practice Research Datali...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002404
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS Medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- e1002404
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-08
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1549-1676
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1549-1277
- Pmid:
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29040269
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English
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pubs:737104
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pubs:737104
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- Rahimi et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 Rahimi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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