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Elevated Blood Pressure and Risk of New-Onset Diabetes

(Top) Kaplan-Meier curves illustrating time to incident diabetes by (A) usual systolic blood pressure categories and (B) usual diastolic blood pressure categories. No adjustments were applied. (Bottom) Hazard ratios per 20 mm Hg higher systolic blood pressure and 10 mm Hg higher diastolic blood pressure for new-onset diabetes, with progressive adjustment for age, sex, BMI, smoking and baseline antihypertensive use and baseline lipid-lowering drug use. BMI = body mass index; CI = confidence interval; DBP = diastolic blood pressure; HR = hazard ratio; SBP = systolic blood pressure.