Inverse Relationship of Blood Pressure Levels to Sudden Cardiac Mortality and Benefit of the Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator in Patients With Ischemic Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Ilan Goldenberg, MD*,*,
Arthur J. Moss, MD*,
Scott McNitt, MS*,
Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD*,
W. Jackson Hall, PhD ,
Mark L. Andrews, BBS* for the MADIT-II Investigators
* Cardiology Unit of the Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York.
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Figure 1 Mortality Rates by Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure
All-cause (solid diamonds, solid lines), cardiac (solid squares, dashed lines) and sudden cardiac (solid circles, dotted lines) mortality rates per 100 person-years by (A) systolic blood pressure quartiles and (B) diastolic blood pressure quartiles.
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Figure 2 ICD Benefit by SBP
Kaplan-Meier estimates of probability of all-cause mortality by treatment group among patients with (A) systolic blood pressure (SBP) quartiles 1 to 3 and (B) SBP quartile 4. ICD = implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
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Figure 3 ICD Benefit by DBP
Kaplan-Meier estimates of probability of all-cause mortality by treatment group among patients with (A) diastolic blood pressure (DBP) quartiles 1 to 3 and (B) DBP quartile 4. ICD = implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.
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