Blood pressure variability assessed by home measurements: a systematic review

Blood pressure variability assessed by home measurements: a systematic review

Por:  George S Stergiou, Angeliki Ntineri, Anastasios Kollias, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Yutaka Imai y Gianfranco Parati.  Hypertension Research (2014) 37, 565–572.

Accumulating evidence suggests that day-by-day blood pressure (BP) variability assessed using self-measurements by patients at home (HBPV) provides useful information beyond that of average home BP. This systematic review summarizes the current evidence on day-by-day HBPV. A systematic literature search (PubMed) revealed 22 eligible articles. Independent prognostic value of day-by-day HBPV for cardiovascular events and total mortality was demonstrated in two outcome studies, whereas novel indices of variability had minimal or no independent prognostic ability.