Association Between Hypertension and Incident Infective Endocarditis.
Gyu Bae LeeKoh Eun ShinKyungdo HanHo-Sung SonJae-Seung JungYang-Hyun KimHee-Jung KimPublished in: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) (2022)
In a large national cohort study with an average follow-up of 9 years, increased blood pressure was identified as a risk factor for incident IE in a dose-dependent manner. Hypertension increases the public health care burden by acting as a risk factor for rare infective heart diseases.