BACKGROUND/AIMS Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) contributes to poorer short-term mortality in cirrhotic patients with ascites. However, it is unknown how long the effect of the first SBP event persists in these patients. METHODS The National Health Insurance Database, derived from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program, was used to identify and enroll 7,892 cirrhotic patients wi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We examined blood pressure 1 year after stroke discharge and its association with treatment intensification. METHODS We examined the systolic blood pressure (SBP) stratified by discharge SBP (≤140, 141-160, or >160 mm Hg) among a national cohort of Veterans discharged after acute ischemic stroke. Hypertension treatment opportunities were defined as outpatient SBP >160 m...

The relationship between systolic blood pressure (SBP) change during hospitalization of patients with heart failure (HF) and clinical outcomes has never been thoroughly investigated.A total of 3393 patients hospitalized with HF, from 25 hospitals in Israel, were enrolled. The SBP change was calculated by subtracting the discharge SBP values from the admission values and then divided into quarti...

In the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a US longitudinal study of >15 000 young adults, we examined the extent to which socioeconomic status is linked to systolic blood pressure (SBP) and whether biobehavioral risk factors mediate the association. More than 62% of the participants had SBP >120 mm Hg and 12% had SBP >140 mm Hg. More than 66% were classified as at least overweig...

Age (years, mean±SD) DM (%) Current smoker (%) Blood pressure (mmHg, %) Optimal (SBP<120, DBP<80) Normal (SBP<130, DBP<85) High normal (SBP<140, DBP<90) Stage I HT (SBP<160, DBP<100) Stage II to IV HT (SBP>=160, DBP ≥ 100) Total cholesterol (mg/dl, %) <160 160-199 200-239 240-279 ≥ 280 LDL cholesterol (mg/dl, %) >130 130-159 >160 HDL cholesterol (mg/dl, %) <35 35-44 45-49 50-59 ≥ 60 Creatinine ...

BACKGROUND The exact form of the association between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart failure (HF) risk in the elderly remains incompletely defined, especially in individuals not receiving antihypertensive drugs. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between SBP and HF risk in the elderly. DESIGN Competing-risks proportional hazards modelling of incident HF risk, using 10-year follow-...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recent studies suggest a J-shaped association between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and cardiovascular events. The optimal SBP target after stroke remains unknown. We assessed the link between SBP and mortality after stroke. METHODS We included adults (≥20 years) with self-reported stroke who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys 1998 to ...

the relative importance of systolic blood pressure (sbp) versus diastolic blood pressure (dbp) in predicting the risk of ischaemic heart disease (ihd) mortality is controversial. we have re-examined sbp compared to d bp and other combinations of sbp and d bp in predicting the risk of ihd mortality in a long-term cohort study oflo,541 men and women in the west of scotland. during a mean follow-u...

The association between low systolic blood pressure (SBP) and vascular diseases is unclear. The aim of this study was to prospectively examine the association between SBP, especially low SBP, and mortality from all causes and vascular diseases among the elderly in Korea. Six thousand two hundred ninety four residents in a rural community were followed-up for deaths from 1985 to 2008. The adjust...

The SBP-box gene family is specific to plants and encodes a class of zinc finger-containing transcription factors with a broad range of functions. Although SBP-box genes have been identified in numerous plants, including green algae, moss, silver birch, snapdragon, Arabidopsis, rice, and maize, there is little information concerning SBP-box genes, or the corresponding miR156/157, function in me...