Fig 1.
Systolic blood pressure trajectories over lifetime.
Abbreviations: SBP = systolic blood pressure; CVDs = cardiovascular diseases. Class 1 (red): rapid increase (n = 113, 3.2%); Class 2 (green): slight increase (n = 1958, 54.9%); Class 3 (blue): stable (n = 614, 17.2%); Class 4 (black): increase (n = 800, 22.4%); Class 5 (brown): fluctuant (n = 81, 2.3%).
Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population across trajectory groups (n = 3566).
Table 2.
The association between systolic blood pressure trajectories and cardiovascular diseases (n = 3566).