Beat-to-Beat, Reading-to-Reading, and Day-to-Day Blood Pressure Variability in Relation to Organ Damage in Untreated Chinese

Fang-Fei Wei, Yan Li*, Lu Zhang, Ting-Yan Xu, Feng-Hua Ding, Ji-Guang Wang, Jan A. Staessen

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Abstract

Whether target organ damage is associated with blood pressure (BP) variability independent of level remains debated. We assessed these associations from 10-minute beat-to-beat, 24-hour ambulatory, and 7-day home BP recordings in 256 untreated subjects referred to a hypertension clinic. BP variability indices were variability independent of the mean, maximum-minimum difference, and average real variability. Effect sizes (standardized ) were computed using multivariable regression models. In beat-to-beat recordings, left ventricular mass index (n=128) was not (P0.18) associated with systolic BP but increased with all 3 systolic variability indices (+2.97-3.53 g/m(2); P
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)790-796
JournalHypertension
Volume63
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2014

Keywords

  • blood pressure monitoring
  • ambulatory
  • home
  • clinical laboratory science

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