Table 1. Baseline characteristics of prospective cohort studies included in the meta-analysis of orthostatic hypotension and incident heart failure.
| Study | Country | Population | Baseline year | Ntotal | Male | Agerange | Meanage | BMI | HTN | DM | BaselineCAD | OH definition | OHprevalence |
| % | years | years | kg/m2 | % | % | % | % | ||||||
| Verwoert 2008 | the Netherlands | Community-living individuals | 1990∼1993 | 5064 | 38.4 | 55∼99 | 68.1 | 26.2 | 26.9 | 8.9 | 0 | SBP decline ≥20 mmHg or DBPdecline ≥10 mmHg from supineto standing (at 1, 2 or 3 minutes) | 17.8 |
| Fedorowski 2010 | Sweden | Population-basedmiddle-agedindividuals | 1974∼1992 | 32669 | 68.2 | 26∼61 | 45.6 | 24.6 | 40.2 | 4.7 | 0.4 | SBP decline ≥20 mmHg or DBPdecline ≥10 mmHg from supineto standing (within 3 minutes) | 6.1 |
| Lin 2011 | China | Elderly individualswho underwenthealth screening | 2010 | 1174 | 95.6 | 65∼ | 81.1 | 25.1 | 72.3 | 41.2 | 7.8 | SBP decline ≥20 mmHg or DBPdecline ≥10 mmHg from supineto standing (within 3 minutes) | 25.6 |
| Jones 2012 | USA | Community-livingmiddle-agedindividuals | 1987∼1989 | 12363 | 45.3 | 45∼64 | 54.1 | 27.5 | 32.3 | 10.9 | 4.4 | SBP decline ≥20 mmHg or DBPdecline ≥10 mmHg from supineto standing (within 2 minutes) | 5.0 |
BMI, body mass index; HTN, hypertension; DM, diabetes mellitus; CAD, coronary artery disease; OH, orthostatic hypotension; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure.