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From: Association of high-normal blood pressure defined by the 2023 European Society of Hypertension guideline with mortality in the Chinese population: a nationwide, population-based, prospective study of 3.6 million adults

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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

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