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Itabashi CampusProfessor Okubo and his research group have revealed that the faster the home pulse rate, the higher the risk of death.

On Sunday, December 15, 2024, a research group led by Professor Takayoshi Okubo, Senior Staff the Department of Public Health at Teikyo University School of Medicine, and Dr. Ryudai Kimura, Physician at the Fourth Department of Internal Medicine School of Medicine at Mizonokuchi Hospital, University of Tokyo, used data from a 7.3-year follow-up of 3,022 hypertensive patients to demonstrate that a faster home pulse rate correlates with a higher mortality risk. They also found that home pulse measured by patients themselves at home has a stronger correlation with mortality risk than office pulse measured in an outpatient clinic. These findings clarify the clinical significance of home pulse, which is obtained along with blood pressure using home blood pressure monitors, a method widely used in Japan, and are expected to provide a new approach to improving the quality of medical care by improving risk stratification for hypertensive patients who monitor their blood pressure at home.
The results of this research were published online in the Journal of the American Heart Association on Sunday, December 15, 2024.

Read the press release here
Read the published paper here (in English)

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