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Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants

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Background Change in the prevalence of raised blood pressure could be due to both shifts in the entire distribution of blood pressure (representing the combined effects of public health interventions and secular trends) and changes in its high-blood-pressure tail (representing successful clinical interventions to control blood pressure in the hypertensive population). Our aim was to quantify the contributions of these two phenomena to the worldwide trends in the prevalence of... Expand abstract
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1093/ije/dyy016

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division; Nuffield Department of Population Health; Clinical Trial Service Unit
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Women's and Reproductive Health
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Contributor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division; Nuffield Department of Population Health; Cancer Epidemiology Unit
Role:
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division; Primary Care Health Sciences
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Contributor
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
International Journal of Epidemiology Journal website
Volume:
47
Issue:
3
Pages:
872–883i
Publication date:
2018-03-19
Acceptance date:
2018-01-24
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EISSN:
1464-3685
ISSN:
0300-5771
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pubs:822214
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uuid:8c8aad27-468a-4acc-91a6-fce62c22cd8d
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822214
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2018-02-01

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