Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese Population
It has been well stated that high values of blood pressure constitute a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases [20], with the latter being the number one death cause in Portugal. The main interest of the present study is to model the high values of systolic blood pressure in the individuals of the...
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It has been well stated that high values of blood pressure constitute a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases [20], with the latter being the number one death cause in Portugal. The main interest of the present study is to model the high values of systolic blood pressure in the individuals of the population who are most at risk, i.e., the elderly. This group frequently suffers from a specific type of hypertension pathology, known as isolated systolic hypertension. With that purpose the Peaks Over Threshold methodology was applied, which consists in fitting a generalized Pareto distribution to the excesses above a sufficiently high threshold. The model will be able to estimate extreme quantiles and tail probabilities.
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| spelling | doaj.art-0118b242e5d9436d979261c7a9b865ba2022-12-22T04:02:49ZengInstituto Nacional de Estatística | Statistics PortugalRevstat Statistical Journal1645-67262183-03712019-04-0117210.57805/revstat.v17i2.263Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese PopulationC. P. Caetano 0P. de Zea Bermudez 1Universidade de Lisboa Universidade de Lisboa It has been well stated that high values of blood pressure constitute a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases [20], with the latter being the number one death cause in Portugal. The main interest of the present study is to model the high values of systolic blood pressure in the individuals of the population who are most at risk, i.e., the elderly. This group frequently suffers from a specific type of hypertension pathology, known as isolated systolic hypertension. With that purpose the Peaks Over Threshold methodology was applied, which consists in fitting a generalized Pareto distribution to the excesses above a sufficiently high threshold. The model will be able to estimate extreme quantiles and tail probabilities. https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/263extreme value theoryBayesian statisticsthreshold modelsthreshold selectionmultiple testing for ordered hypotheses |
| spellingShingle | C. P. Caetano P. de Zea Bermudez Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese Population Revstat Statistical Journal extreme value theory Bayesian statistics threshold models threshold selection multiple testing for ordered hypotheses |
| title | Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese Population |
| title_full | Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese Population |
| title_fullStr | Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese Population |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese Population |
| title_short | Modeling Large Values of Systolic Blood Pressure in the Portuguese Population |
| title_sort | modeling large values of systolic blood pressure in the portuguese population |
| topic | extreme value theory Bayesian statistics threshold models threshold selection multiple testing for ordered hypotheses |
| url | https://revstat.ine.pt/index.php/REVSTAT/article/view/263 |
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