Association between Ambient Temperature and Blood Pressure and Blood Pressure Regulators: 1831 Hypertensive Patients Followed Up for Three Years

Qing Chen, Jinwei Wang, Jun Tian, Xun Tang, Canqing Yu, Roger J Marshall, Dafang Chen, Weihua Cao, Siyan Zhan, Jun Lv, Liming Lee and Yonghua Hu

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-7

Abstract: Several studies have suggested an association between ambient air temperature and blood pressure. However, this has not been reliably confirmed by longitudinal studies. Also, whether the reaction to temperature stimulation is modified by other factors such as antihypertensive medication is rarely investigated. The present study explores the relationship between ambient temperature and blood pressure, without and with antihypertensive medication, in a study of 1,831 hypertensive patients followed up for three years, in two or four weekly check ups, accumulating 62,452 follow-up records. Both baseline and follow-up blood pressure showed an inverse association with ambient temperature, which explained 32.4% and 65.6% of variation of systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure (P

Date: 2013
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