Blood pressure variability and multiple organ damage in primary hypertension

Blood pressure variability and multiple organ damage in primary hypertension

Por: G Leoncini, F Viazzi, G Storace, G Deferrari y R Pontremoli.    Journal of Human Hypertension (2013) 27, 663–670.

Organ damage (OD) is an indicator of increased cardiovascular risk. Blood pressure variability (BPV) is related to greater incidence of events, regardless of the severity of hypertension. We investigated the relationship between ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM)-derived indices of BPV and the presence of multiple OD in primary hypertension (PH). One hundred and sixty-nine untreated patients with PH were evaluated.

Systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) variability were assessed as the crude and weighted (w.) standard deviation (s.d.), and average real variability (ARV) of the mean value of 24-h, awake and asleep ABPM recordings.