Methods to estimate underlying blood pressure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

Antihypertensive medications complicate studies of blood pressure (BP) natural history; BP if untreated ("underlying BP") needs to be estimated. Our objectives were to compare validity of five missing data imputation methods to estimate underlying BP and longitudinal associations of underl...

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Main Authors: Poojitha Balakrishnan, Terri Beaty, J Hunter Young, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Kunihiro Matsushita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5507409?pdf=render