Fig. 2

SBP trajectory patterns during the follow-up. Abbreviations: SBP, systolic blood pressure; The participants included in this study had at least three SBP measurements. Optimal-stable: n = 20,419 (26.5%); normal-stable: n = 30,606 (38.3%); high-normal-stable: n = 23,363 (29.6%); high-normal-increasing: n = 3,742 (5.6%). Follow-up years represented the time since baseline enrollment, where 0 represented the baseline measurement