In HFpEF, both excessively low and widened PP showed a trend toward increased risk of cardiac mortality, which echoes previous observations ( 7 , 8 , 22 ).
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Low admission pulse pressure and increased in-hospital mortality in patients with heart failure.
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Risk rose steeply as PP fell below 50 mmHg, plateaued thereafter for all-cause mortality (inverse J-shape), and trended upward again for cardiac death when PP exceeded approximately 80 mmHg (U-shape), although the latter did not reach statistical significance ( Figure 3 ).