| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - A recent follow-up study of the Framingham data tested the utility of a combination of blood pressure components instead of a single component in predicting cardiovascular risk.4 In a model adjusted for age, sex, and other covariates, the odds of cardiovascular events increased with increasing SBP and DBP, but the relationship between DBP and cardiovascular risk was quadratic and nonlinear.
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