Open AccessPrognostic importance of long-term SBP variability in high-risk hypertension
Author(s) -
Rita Del Pinto,
Davide Pietropaoli,
Mirela Dobre,
Claudio Ferri
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.249
H-Index - 172
eISSN - 1473-5598
pISSN - 0263-6352
DOI - 10.1097/hjh.0000000000002552
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , cardiology , proportional hazards model , blood pressure , cohort , confidence interval , framingham heart study , framingham risk score , disease
In addition to high blood pressure variability (BPV), low BPV was associated with adverse cardiovascular prognosis in selected high-risk patients. We explored this issue in the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) using a nonlinear approach with BPV as a continuous variable.