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Fasting glucose × blood pressure

Glucose and blood pressure add up rather than interact: 30 mmHg more systolic pressure raises hazard about 20% at any glucose level, and glucose above 7 mmol/L adds its own rise.

Mortality hazard1.00× reference

Glucose: 5.1
Systolic BP: 121
Within data: yes

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Hazard relative to the reference, by contour band.

Cox model with restricted cubic splines and a Glucose × Systolic BP interaction (likelihood-ratio p = 0.32), adjusted for age and sex. NHANES 1999–2018 with linked mortality to 2019; 46,469 adults, 6,688 deaths. Hazards are associations: the move button reads the surface at a new position and is not a trial estimate of what treatment would do. The age path joins population medians by age band (NHANES 2017–18), which is cross-sectional and does not follow one person.

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Colour shows all-cause mortality hazard relative to the reference point, from a Cox model fitted on 46,469 adults with 6,688 deaths. Each contour band is one step on the scale beside the map. Hatched areas hold too few people to estimate.

The interaction test asks whether the two markers combine differently from the sum of their separate effects (likelihood-ratio p = 0.32). Use Copy link to this view to share the exact position you are looking at.

Biomarker pages: Fasting Plasma Glucose · Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP).