Blood Pressure Variability: Assessment, Prognostic Significance, and Management

Publisher: Jaypee Infomedia

ISSN: 2454-5996

Source: Hypertension Journal, Vol.2, Iss.3, 2016-07, pp. : 124-130

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Abstract

ABSTRACTOver the years, physicians and researches alike have tried to understand the parameter in blood pressure which would offer as an ideal risk marker to predict cardiovascular events. Our focus has shifted from diastolic pressure to systolic pressure to pulse pressure, etc. In spite of optimal control of all the above target pressures, hypertensive subjects still end up with stroke and high blood pressure has been noted as a defining factor in them. This has led to physicians identifying a phenomenon called blood pressure variability. Individuals exhibiting similar clinic or home blood pressure can differ considerably with respect to their average day and night time values, beat-by-beat blood pressure variation during wakefulness and sleep, responses to mental and physical stimuli, and intersession and seasonal variation. There is now evidence that several such representations of blood pressure variability, if augmented, increase cardiovascular risk independent of the average of conventionally acquired blood pressure readings.How to cite this articleChenniappan M. Blood Pressure Variability: Assessment, Prognostic Significance, and Management. Hypertens J 2016;2(3):124-130.