Xue Cao, Zhenping Zhao, Yuting Kang, Yixin Tian, Yuxin Song, Limin Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Xin Wang, Zuo Chen, Congyi Zheng, Lu Tian, Peng Yin, Yuehui Fang, Mei Zhang, Yuna He, Zugui Zhang, William S Weintraub, Maigeng Zhou, Zengwu Wang
BACKGROUND: Temporal trends and geographical variations in cardiovascular disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in China are not yet fully understood. The aim of this study was to quantify the cardiovascular disease burden attributable to high systolic blood pressure at national and provincial levels in China. METHODS: In this population-based study, we evaluated systolic blood pressure and estimated the number of deaths, age-standardised mortality rates, and years of life lost (YLLs) due to cardiovascular disease and its subcategories (including ischaemic heart disease, ischaemic stroke, haemorrhagic stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases) attributable to high systolic blood pressure, at the national level and by 31 provincial levels, in China, from 2005 to 2018...
December 2022: Lancet. Public Health