References
- Goldstein LB, Bushnell CD, Adams RJ, et al. Guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke: a guideline for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke 2011;42:517-84
- Roger VL, Go AS, Lloyd-Jones DM, et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics – 2012 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2012;125:e2-220
- Kinlay S. Changes in stroke epidemiology, prevention, and treatment. Circulation 2011;124:e494-6
- Kannel WB, McGee D, Gordon T. A general cardiovascular risk profile: the Framingham Study. Am J Cardiol 1976;38:46-51
- Kagan A, Popper JS, Rhoads GG. Factors related to stroke incidence in Hawaii Japanese men. The Honolulu Heart Study. Stroke 1980;11:14-21
- Kannel WB, Wolf PA, Dawber TR. An evaluation of the epidemiology of atherothrombotic brain infarction. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc 1975;53:405-48
- Vishram JKK, Borglykke A, Andreasen AH, et al. Impact of age on the importance of systolic and diastolic blood pressures for stroke risk: the MOnica, Risk, Genetics, Archiving, and Monograph (MORGAM) Project. Hypertension 2012;60:1117-23
- Hypertension Detection and Follow-up Program Cooperative Group. Five-year findings of the hypertension detection and follow-up program. III. Reduction in stroke incidence among persons with high blood pressure. JAMA 1982;247:633-8
- The Australian therapeutic trial in mild hypertension. Report by the Management Committee. Lancet 1980;1:1261-7
- Verdecchia P, Schillaci G, Reboldi G, et al. Different prognostic impact of 24-hour mean blood pressure and pulse pressure on stroke and coronary artery disease in essential hypertension. Circulation 2001;103:2579-84
- Mancia G, Fagard R, Narkiewicz K, et al. 2013 ESH/ESC guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: the Task Force for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Eur Heart J 2013;34:2159-219
- Winston GJ, Palmas W, Lima J, et al. Pulse pressure and subclinical cardiovascular disease in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Am J Hypertens 2013;26:636-42
- Franklin SS, Gustin W, Wong ND, et al. Hemodynamic patterns of age-related changes in blood pressure: The Framingham Heart Study. Circulation 1997;96:308-15
- Franklin SS, Khan SA, Wong ND, et al. Is pulse pressure useful in predicting risk for coronary heart Disease? The Framingham heart study. Circulation 1999;100:354-60
- Domanski M, Norman J, Wolz M, et al. Cardiovascular risk assessment using pulse pressure in the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I). Hypertension 2001;38:793-7
- Madhavan S, Ooi WL, Cohen H, et al. Relation of pulse pressure and blood pressure reduction to the incidence of myocardial infarction. Hypertension 1994;23:395-401
- Kostis JB, Lawrence-Nelson J, Ranjan R, et al. Association of increased pulse pressure with the development of heart failure in SHEP. Am J Hypertens 2001;14:798-803
- Nawrot TS, Staessen JA, Thijs L, et al. Should pulse pressure become part of the Framingham risk score? J Hum Hypertens 2004;18:279-86
- Briet M, Pierre B, Laurent S, et al. Arterial stiffness and pulse pressure in CKD and ESRD. Kidney Int 2012;82:388-400
- Domanski MJ, Davis BR, Pfeffer MA, et al. Isolated systolic hypertension: prognostic information provided by pulse pressure. Hypertension 1999;34:375-80
- Blacher J, Staessen JA, Girerd X, et al. Pulse pressure not mean pressure determines cardiovascular risk in older hypertensive patients. Arch Intern Med 2000;160:1085-9
- Wolf PA, D’Agostino RB, Belanger AJ, et al. Probability of stroke: a risk profile from the Framingham Study. Stroke 1991;22:312-18
- Lumley T, Kronmal RA, Cushman M, et al. A stroke prediction score in the elderly: validation and web-based application. J Clin Epidemiol 2002;55:129-36
- Tibshirani R. The lasso method for variable selection in the Cox model. Stat Med 1997;16:385-95
- Uno H, Cai T, Pencina MJ, et al. On the c-statistics for evaluating overall adequacy of risk prediction procedures with censored survival data. Stat Med 2011;30:1105-17
- Ohman EM. Risk stratification and therapeutic decision making in acute coronary syndromes. JAMA 2000;284:876-8
- Antikainen RL, Jousilahti P, Vanhanen H, et al. Excess mortality associated with increased pulse pressure among middle-aged men and women is explained by high systolic blood pressure. J Hypertens 2000;18:417-23
- Miura K, Soyama Y, Morikawa Y, et al. Comparison of four blood pressure indexes for the prediction of 10-year stroke risk in middle-aged and older Asians. Hypertension 2004;44:715-20
- Miura K, Nakagawa H, Ohashi Y, et al. Four blood pressure indexes and the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction in Japanese men and women a meta-analysis of 16 cohort studies. Circulation 2009;119:1892-8
- Miura K, Dyer AR, Greenland P, et al. Pulse pressure compared with other blood pressure indexes in the prediction of 25-year cardiovascular and all-cause mortality rates: The Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry Study. Hypertension 2001;38:232-7