ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2024
The associations of the triglyceride-glucose index and its combination with blood pressure on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in hypertension: a national study.
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- Blood pressure-stratified associations of the atherogenic index of plasma with all-cause mortality: a 10-year rural cohort study in China.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Associations of triglyceride-glucose-body mass Index and C-reactive protein with isolated nocturnal hypertension: evidence from a retrospective observational study.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Association between the non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and mortality among hypertension patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association of triglyceride-glucose index and derived indices with cataract in middle-aged and elderly Americans: NHANES 2005-2008.Lipids in health and disease · 2025Article
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Abstract
The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, a reliable surrogate biomarker of insulin resistance (IR), is highlighted recently as related to cardiac disorders. However, the associations of the TyG index and its combination with blood pressure (BP) on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in hypertension remain unclear. In this study, we included 9,635 hypertension patients from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2018. During a median follow-up of 8.00 years, a total number of 853 and 2,489 in cardiovascular and all-cause deaths occurred, respectively. After full adjustments, the individual TyG index was positively associated with cardiovascular and all-cause mortality with J-shaped dose-response relationships. The lowest risk thresholds of the TyG index for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality were 9.5551 and 9.3405, respectively. In joint analyses, the highest risks of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality were observed among those with elevated levels of both BP and IR [1.64 (1.18, 2.28),
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