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1 Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality
Sarah Lewington, Robert Clarke, Nawab Qizilbash, Richard Peto, Rory Collins  The Lancet  Volume 361, Issue 9366, Pages (April 2003) DOI: /S (03) Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

2 Figure Notional association of a risk factor with vascular, non-vascular, and all-cause mortality Based on a doubling in the number of vascular deaths between each quintile of the risk factor (ie, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 deaths, respectively) but no difference in the number of non-vascular deaths (ie, 800 in each quintile), and with the overall percentages of deaths due to vascular and nonvascular causes (44% and 56%, respectively) similar to those in the Prospective Studies Collaboration. The Lancet  , DOI: ( /S (03) ) Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions


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