Masato Takase, Naoki Nakaya, Kozo Tanno, Mana Kogure, Rieko Hatanaka, Kumi Nakaya, Ippei Chiba, Ikumi Kanno, Kotaro Nochioka, Naho Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Nakamura, Takumi Hirata, Taku Obara, Mami Ishikuro, Yuka Kotozaki, Akira Uruno, Tomoko Kobayashi, Eiichi N Kodama, Yohei Hamanaka, Masatsugu Orui, Soichi Ogishima, Satoshi Nagaie, Hideki Ohmomo, Nobuo Fuse, Junichi Sugawara, Atsushi Shimizu, Yoko Izumi, Shinichi Kuriyama, Atsushi Hozawa
Risk factors for hypertension have been emphasized in the Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the Management of Hypertension. However, large-scale studies on the association of smoking, potassium excretion, and gamma-glutamyl transferase level with BP in the Japanese population are limited. We conducted a cross-sectional study to examine the association between hypertension risk factors and systolic blood pressure in the Tohoku Medical Megabank Community-based Cohort Study (23,446 men and 38,921 women aged ≥20 years)...
February 29, 2024: Hypertension Research: Official Journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension