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Blood Pressure and Risk of Clinical Events in Peripheral Artery Disease

2025-10-01 cardiovascular medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundCurrent guidelines recommend a blood pressure (BP) goal [≤]130/80 mm Hg in peripheral artery disease (PAD) even though few PAD patients were enrolled in the landmark BP-lowering trials. Moreover, intensive BP control can worsen limb perfusion and none of the trials adjudicated limb events. MethodsUsing data from a longitudinal registry of US Veterans, we identified 91,296 patients (>2.7 million BP values) with a new diagnosis of PAD during 2015-2020. Multivariable Cox regression mo...

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