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Hypertension. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 July 01. Published in final edited form as: Hypertension. 2016 July ; 68(1): 71–77. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.116.07381.
Longitudinal patterns of blood pressure, incident cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in normotensive diabetic persons Zhijun Wu1, Cheng Jin2, Anand Vaidya3, Wei Jin1, Zhe Huang2, Shouling Wu2, and Xiang Gao4 1Department
of Cardiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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2Department
of Cardiology, Kailuan Hospital, Tangshan, People's Republic of China
3Division
of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
4Department
of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State college, PA
Abstract
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Lower blood pressure (BP) within the normotensive range have been suggested to be deleterious in diabetic persons using anti-hypertensive drugs. We hypothesized BP