Assessing Sex Differences in the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality per Increment in Systolic Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Studies in the United States

• Yu-Chung Wei,

  Affiliations Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Nysia I. George ,

  * E-mail: wei0917@gmail.com (CWC); nysia.george@fda.hhs.gov (NIG)

  Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Ching-Wei Chang ,

  * E-mail: wei0917@gmail.com (CWC); nysia.george@fda.hhs.gov (NIG)

  Affiliations Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States of America, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Karen A. Hicks

  Affiliation Office of Drug Evaluation I, Division of Cardiovascular and Renal Products, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

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