Single Versus Combined Blood Pressure Components and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

Background— The utility of single versus combined blood pressure (BP) components in predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) events is not established. We compared systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) versus pulse pressure (PP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) combined and each of these 4 BP components alone in predicting CVD events. Methods and Results— In participants in the original (n=4760) and offspring (n=4897) Framingham Heart Study...