Different prognostic association of systolic blood pressure at different time points with post-discharge events in decompensated chronic heart failure patients

Background The association of systolic blood pressure (SBP) with mortality in heart failure (HF) patients is paradoxical, and the time points of baseline SBP are also different across prior studies. We hypothesized that the levels of SBP at admission and at discharge had different associations with postdischarge events.