Quantifying effects of blood pressure control on neuroimaging utilization in a large multi-institutional healthcare population.
Theodore R WelchAliza YaqubDanny AitiLuciano M PrevedelloZarar A AjamXuan V NguyenPublished in: PloS one (2024)
Higher annual maximum recorded blood pressure is associated with higher same-year neuroimaging CT and MR utilization rates. These observations are relevant to public health efforts on hypertension management to mitigate costs associated with growing imaging utilization.
Keyphrases
- blood pressure
- public health
- healthcare
- hypertensive patients
- heart rate
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- high resolution
- magnetic resonance
- blood glucose
- metabolic syndrome
- type diabetes
- positron emission tomography
- mass spectrometry
- skeletal muscle
- social media
- photodynamic therapy
- insulin resistance
- fluorescence imaging